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Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Guides and Directories "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
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This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Guides and Directories 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 "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Guides and Directories
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Guides and Directories Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Guides and Directories
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Guides and Directories A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Guides and Directories
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Guides and Directories "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Guides and Directories
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Guides and Directories When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
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I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Guides and Directories I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Guides and Directories
When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "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) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Guides and Directories
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "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 For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Guides and Directories The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Guides and Directories
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Guides and Directories "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Guides and Directories
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Guides and Directories It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Guides and Directories
