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It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Guides and Directories "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Guides and Directories
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Guides and Directories If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous "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 Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway 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 NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Guides and Directories Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Guides and Directories
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Guides and Directories "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Guides and Directories
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Guides and Directories I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "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) Guides and Directories
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories "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) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Guides and Directories
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Guides and Directories Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Guides and Directories I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Guides and Directories
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Guides and Directories A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Guides and Directories
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Guides and Directories "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Guides and Directories "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Guides and Directories
