blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) 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" 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 "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Guides and Directories It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Guides and Directories When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Guides and Directories
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 "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Guides and Directories 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 "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Guides and Directories
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Guides and Directories "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Guides and Directories All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Guides and Directories
The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Guides and Directories [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Guides and Directories
Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau 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) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Guides and Directories
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Guides and Directories "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley 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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Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Guides and Directories The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Guides and Directories
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "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) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Guides and Directories
Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Guides and Directories Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Guides and Directories
