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When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Guides and Directories "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Guides and Directories
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Guides and Directories A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Guides and Directories Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Guides and Directories
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Guides and Directories
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Guides and Directories The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Guides and Directories
"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) 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 "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Guides and Directories Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Guides and Directories
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Guides and Directories "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Guides and Directories
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) 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 Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Guides and Directories It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Guides and Directories
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Guides and Directories Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Guides and Directories
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Guides and Directories Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Guides and Directories
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Guides and Directories
