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Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Guides and Directories A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Guides and Directories
blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Guides and Directories What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Guides and Directories
You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Guides and Directories "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Guides and Directories
In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Guides and Directories Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Guides and Directories
The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Guides and Directories Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Guides and Directories
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Guides and Directories Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Guides and Directories
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Guides and Directories Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Guides and Directories
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Guides and Directories The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Guides and Directories
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Guides and Directories I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Guides and Directories
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Guides and Directories "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Guides and Directories
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Guides and Directories Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
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