He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Employment The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Employment
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Employment If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Employment
Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Employment Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Employment
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Employment You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Employment
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Employment Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Employment
"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Employment America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Employment
"I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) "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) Employment The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Employment
When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde 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 Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Employment A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Employment
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Employment The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "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 Employment
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Employment Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Employment
"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Employment There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Employment
