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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 Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Guides and Directories "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories
If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Guides and Directories To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Spinster: A bachelor's wife. And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Guides and Directories
"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Guides and Directories Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Guides and Directories
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Guides and Directories Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Guides and Directories
Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Guides and Directories
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team 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 Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Guides and Directories This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Guides and Directories
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Guides and Directories Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words 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
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell 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 I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Guides and Directories Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Guides and Directories
"You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Guides and Directories "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Guides and Directories
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Guides and Directories "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Guides and Directories
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Guides and Directories "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) Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Guides and Directories
