Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Guides and Directories Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Guides and Directories
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Guides and Directories Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Guides and Directories
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Guides and Directories 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 Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Guides and Directories
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Guides and Directories Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Guides and Directories
Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Guides and Directories "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Guides and Directories
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Guides and Directories Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Guides and Directories
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Guides and Directories The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Guides and Directories
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Guides and Directories Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Guides and Directories
"People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Guides and Directories If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Guides and Directories
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Guides and Directories "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Guides and Directories
Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Guides and Directories They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Guides and Directories
