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"Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Guides and Directories The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Guides and Directories
What's new? Most of my wife. I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Guides and Directories Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Guides and Directories
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming 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. Guides and Directories Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Guides and Directories
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous 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 Guides and Directories Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) 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
distance Guides and Directories
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey 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 Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Guides and Directories If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Guides and Directories
It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein 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 It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Guides and Directories
"I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Guides and Directories "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Guides and Directories
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Guides and Directories I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words 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 In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Guides and Directories I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Guides and Directories
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Guides and Directories "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Guides and Directories
The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Guides and Directories It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Guides and Directories
