Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Guides and Directories "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Guides and Directories
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Guides and Directories Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Guides and Directories
To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Guides and Directories The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Guides and Directories
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 We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Guides and Directories blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Guides and Directories
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe 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 I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Guides and Directories
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere 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 If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Guides and Directories
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Guides and Directories A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Guides and Directories
True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Guides and Directories It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Guides and Directories
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Guides and Directories Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Guides and Directories
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Guides and Directories "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Guides and Directories
I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "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' "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Guides and Directories "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
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