Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Guides and Directories Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Guides and Directories
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Guides and Directories "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) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Guides and Directories
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President 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 Guides and Directories Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Guides and Directories
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 I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Guides and Directories "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Guides and Directories
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Guides and Directories Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Guides and Directories
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Guides and Directories
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Guides and Directories Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje 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 Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Guides and Directories
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Guides and Directories "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) ... 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
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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Guides and Directories To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Guides and Directories
Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "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) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Guides and Directories 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 It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Guides and Directories
Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Guides and Directories We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Guides and Directories
