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What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Guides and Directories "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Guides and Directories
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Guides and Directories I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Guides and Directories Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Guides and Directories
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Guides and Directories I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Guides and Directories
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Guides and Directories When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Guides and Directories
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Guides and Directories Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Guides and Directories
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Guides and Directories "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Guides and Directories
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Guides and Directories "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Guides and Directories
"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Guides and Directories A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Guides and Directories
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Guides and Directories My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
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If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Guides and Directories Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Guides and Directories
