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"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "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) Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Guides and Directories "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Guides and Directories
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Guides and Directories Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Guides and Directories
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Guides and Directories "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Guides and Directories Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Guides and Directories
Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Guides and Directories There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Guides and Directories
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Guides and Directories "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Guides and Directories
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Guides and Directories 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 There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Guides and Directories
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Guides and Directories Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Guides and Directories
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Guides and Directories Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Guides and Directories
"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Guides and Directories blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Guides and Directories
"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories 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 "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
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