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My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio 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. 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 If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Guides and Directories "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) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Guides and Directories
"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Guides and Directories It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Guides and Directories
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Guides and Directories Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Guides and Directories
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs 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 I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Guides and Directories A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Guides and Directories
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Guides and Directories "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Guides and Directories
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "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 Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Guides and Directories "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Guides and Directories
We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Guides and Directories Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) 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
"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Guides and Directories A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Guides and Directories
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Guides and Directories What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Guides and Directories
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Guides and Directories Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Guides and Directories
