"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Guides and Directories Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Guides and Directories
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Guides and Directories Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Guides and Directories
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Guides and Directories "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Guides and Directories
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Guides and Directories "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Guides and Directories
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Guides and Directories "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Guides and Directories
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Guides and Directories "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
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"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Guides and Directories When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Guides and Directories
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod What's new? Most of my wife. Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Guides and Directories Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Guides and Directories
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Guides and Directories It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories
Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd 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 Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Guides and Directories America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Guides and Directories
If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Guides and Directories If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Guides and Directories
