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Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Guides and Directories Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
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This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Guides and Directories "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Guides and Directories
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson 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 Guides and Directories "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Guides and Directories
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Guides and Directories 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 Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins 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 Guides and Directories
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Guides and Directories Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. 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 As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Guides and Directories The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "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) 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
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Guides and Directories Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe 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) The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Guides and Directories Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Guides and Directories
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Guides and Directories The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Guides and Directories
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Guides and Directories Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Guides and Directories
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Guides and Directories This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Guides and Directories
