A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Guides and Directories The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Guides and Directories
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Guides and Directories The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Guides and Directories
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 "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues 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 Guides and Directories Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Guides and Directories
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Guides and Directories I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Guides and Directories
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Guides and Directories "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Guides and Directories Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Guides and Directories
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Guides and Directories What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Guides and Directories
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein 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. Guides and Directories
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Guides and Directories "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Guides and Directories
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Guides and Directories Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Guides and Directories
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. 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 There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Guides and Directories The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Guides and Directories
