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Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Guides and Directories Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
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-- Andre Gide Guides and Directories
Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland 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. 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 "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Guides and Directories Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Guides and Directories
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Guides and Directories I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Guides and Directories
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
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-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Guides and Directories I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) 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) Guides and Directories
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) 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) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Guides and Directories
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun Guides and Directories Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Guides and Directories
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
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-- G. M. Trevelyan Guides and Directories
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 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 Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Guides and Directories
Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
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-- Phyllis Diller If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
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-- Luther Burbank, dying words 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.
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Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Guides and Directories blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
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The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Guides and Directories Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Guides and Directories
