The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Guides and Directories Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Guides and Directories
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Guides and Directories The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Guides and Directories
Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Guides and Directories In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Guides and Directories
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Guides and Directories Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Guides and Directories
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Guides and Directories Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Guides and Directories
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Guides and Directories In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Guides and Directories
It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Guides and Directories "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 you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Guides and Directories
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Guides and Directories I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Guides and Directories
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Guides and Directories Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Guides and Directories
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Guides and Directories "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Guides and Directories
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.
-- E. W. Howe Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Guides and Directories Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Guides and Directories
