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"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Guides and Directories "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Guides and Directories
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Guides and Directories True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Guides and Directories
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Guides and Directories My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Guides and Directories
When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Guides and Directories blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Guides and Directories
Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. 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 It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Guides and Directories "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories
Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Guides and Directories "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) 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 "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Guides and Directories
Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Guides and Directories What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Guides and Directories
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin "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 Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Guides and Directories There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Guides and Directories
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Guides and Directories The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
"Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) 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 Guides and Directories Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Guides and Directories
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Guides and Directories Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Guides and Directories
