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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley 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 "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Guides and Directories The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Guides and Directories
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Guides and Directories Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Guides and Directories
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Guides and Directories Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Guides and Directories
May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Guides and Directories "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Guides and Directories
My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Guides and Directories Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Guides and Directories
The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Guides and Directories May you never leave your marriage alive. "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Guides and Directories
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Guides and Directories "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Guides and Directories
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Guides and Directories For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Guides and Directories
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Guides and Directories You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Guides and Directories
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Guides and Directories "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud 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 Guides and Directories
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein 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" If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Guides and Directories I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Guides and Directories
