"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Guides and Directories After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Guides and Directories
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Guides and Directories The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Guides and Directories
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Guides and Directories It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Guides and Directories Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Guides and Directories
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Guides and Directories "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Guides and Directories
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Guides and Directories 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 Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw 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 He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Guides and Directories
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. 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 "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Guides and Directories The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Guides and Directories
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 I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Guides and Directories
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Guides and Directories Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Guides and Directories
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 I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson 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 If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Guides and Directories "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) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Guides and Directories
