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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "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) Internet Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Internet
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Internet When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Internet
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Internet "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Internet
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Internet To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Internet
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Internet Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Internet
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Internet "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) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Internet
I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Internet When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Internet
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Internet "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Internet
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Internet The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Internet
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Internet Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Internet
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Internet "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Internet
