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-- Jack Welch "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Guides and Directories Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Guides and Directories
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Guides and Directories The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Guides and Directories
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Guides and Directories Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Guides and Directories
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Guides and Directories Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Guides and Directories
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 "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Guides and Directories Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses 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. Guides and Directories
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Guides and Directories "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Guides and Directories
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Guides and Directories Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Guides and Directories
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Guides and Directories This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Guides and Directories
You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Guides and Directories Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Guides and Directories
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Guides and Directories I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Guides and Directories
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Guides and Directories "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Guides and Directories
