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If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald 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 Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton 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) The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Guides and Directories All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Guides and Directories
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Guides and Directories We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Guides and Directories
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White 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 There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Guides and Directories Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz 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" Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Guides and Directories Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Guides and Directories
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Guides and Directories Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Guides and Directories
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Guides and Directories A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Guides and Directories Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Guides and Directories
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Guides and Directories The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
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Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Guides and Directories The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
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