Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Guides and Directories I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Guides and Directories
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 "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) Guides and Directories "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Guides and Directories Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Guides and Directories The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
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Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain 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 "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) "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 Guides and Directories Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Guides and Directories
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Guides and Directories Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Guides and Directories
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 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 Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Guides and Directories His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Guides and Directories
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "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 I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories
"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Guides and Directories "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Guides and Directories
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Guides and Directories "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Guides and Directories
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Guides and Directories Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Guides and Directories
