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Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Guides and Directories Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Guides and Directories
"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Guides and Directories "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Guides and Directories
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Guides and Directories
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Guides and Directories People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Guides and Directories "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Guides and Directories
To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Guides and Directories The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Guides and Directories
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Guides and Directories To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Guides and Directories
You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Guides and Directories Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Guides and Directories
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Guides and Directories I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Guides and Directories
"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Guides and Directories "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Guides and Directories
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "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) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Guides and Directories I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Guides and Directories
