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Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Guides and Directories
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Guides and Directories The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Guides and Directories
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Guides and Directories Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Guides and Directories
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Guides and Directories "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Guides and Directories
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Guides and Directories
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Guides and Directories Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Guides and Directories
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning 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. Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Guides and Directories Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Guides and Directories
Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons 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) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Guides and Directories
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Guides and Directories "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Guides and Directories
