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"I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Guides and Directories I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson 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 There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Guides and Directories If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Guides and Directories
Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Guides and Directories "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Guides and Directories
To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson 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 Guides and Directories Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Guides and Directories
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. 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 All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Guides and Directories America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "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) Guides and Directories
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Guides and Directories "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Guides and Directories
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Guides and Directories "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Guides and Directories
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Guides and Directories When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Guides and Directories
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Guides and Directories We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Guides and Directories
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Guides and Directories Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Guides and Directories
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Guides and Directories Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Guides and Directories
