Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Directories Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Directories
Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. 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 Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Directories Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Directories
"REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Directories Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Directories
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Directories "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Directories
Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Directories It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha 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 The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Directories
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Directories There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Directories
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Directories I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Directories
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Directories the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Directories
Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? 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 The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Directories The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Directories
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Directories Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Directories
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Directories Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Directories
