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If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Guides and Directories "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Guides and Directories
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Guides and Directories Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Guides and Directories
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Guides and Directories If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Guides and Directories
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Guides and Directories It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Guides and Directories
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Guides and Directories "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Guides and Directories
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Guides and Directories My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Guides and Directories "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Guides and Directories
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "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 I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Guides and Directories The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Guides and Directories
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Guides and Directories Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Guides and Directories
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Guides and Directories These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Guides and Directories
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz 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.
-- In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Guides and Directories Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Guides and Directories
