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I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Guides and Directories "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Guides and Directories
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Guides and Directories We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Guides and Directories
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Guides and Directories The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Guides and Directories
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Guides and Directories It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Guides and Directories
"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Guides and Directories 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Guides and Directories "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Guides and Directories
When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Guides and Directories We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Guides and Directories "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Guides and Directories
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Guides and Directories Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Guides and Directories
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill 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 "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Guides and Directories If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Guides and Directories
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Guides and Directories Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Guides and Directories
