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You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Guides and Directories Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Guides and Directories
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Guides and Directories
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Guides and Directories "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Guides and Directories
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Guides and Directories Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Guides and Directories
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Guides and Directories Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Guides and Directories
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
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"I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Guides and Directories There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Guides and Directories
Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Guides and Directories People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Guides and Directories
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Guides and Directories My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Guides and Directories
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Guides and Directories "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Guides and Directories Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Guides and Directories
