"The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) 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 "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Guides and Directories blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Guides and Directories "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 "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
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Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Guides and Directories When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Guides and Directories
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Guides and Directories Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Guides and Directories
If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) 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 Guides and Directories Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Guides and Directories
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Guides and Directories Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Guides and Directories
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Guides and Directories We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Guides and Directories
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Guides and Directories Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Guides and Directories
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 To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Guides and Directories Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Guides and Directories
I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Guides and Directories "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
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Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Guides and Directories "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) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA 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.
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