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The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be. -- Paul Valery "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. -- Adlai Stevenson For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken Guides and Directories "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. -- Karen Sunde All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed... -- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Guides and Directories "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him. -- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. -- Mark Twain Guides and Directories The child is the father of the man. -- William Wordsworth A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. -- Will Rogers Guides and Directories "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another. -- H. L. Mencken "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat. -- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Guides and Directories Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian. -- H. L. Mencken If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth. -- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Guides and Directories The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. -- G. K. Chesterton Hell is a half-filled auditorium. - Robert Frost Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. -- George Bernard Shaw You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist. -- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Guides and Directories Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the human will. -- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. -- Gilda Radner Ambition is not a vice of little people. -- Michel de Montaigne Guides and Directories That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. -- Aldous Huxley For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. -- Virginia Woolf If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee. -- Anne Bradstreet Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members. -- William Temple We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. -- Buck Henry Guides and Directories The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. -- Lynn In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -- Douglas Adams "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Guides and Directories Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. -- Henry David Thoreau May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Guides and Directories Faith is believing what you know ain't so. -- Mark Twain Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work. -- John G. Pollard "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Guides and Directories "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - Sir Winston Churchill No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -- Anonymous Guides and Directories "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that 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 Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben 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 "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free. -- Indigo Girls, song lyric Guides and Directories "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. -- Paul Boese Guides and Directories As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. -- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth. -- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Guides and Directories A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that. -- Shakespeare, William My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total ins Guides and Directories The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Guides and Directories To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live. -- H "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. -- Baskins Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years. -- Anonymous A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Guides and Directories While we are postponing, life speeds by. - Seneca (3BC - 65AD) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli Guides and Directories
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