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"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Guides and Directories Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "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) Guides and Directories
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Guides and Directories Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Guides and Directories
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Guides and Directories A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato 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 "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Guides and Directories Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Guides and Directories
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac 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 Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Guides and Directories Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Guides and Directories
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Guides and Directories When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Guides and Directories
"Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Guides and Directories
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Guides and Directories Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Guides and Directories
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx 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 Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Guides and Directories When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Guides and Directories
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Guides and Directories Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Guides and Directories
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Guides and Directories The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories
