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Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand 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 Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Organizations When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Organizations
My other wife is beautiful. "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Organizations Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Organizations
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson May you never leave your marriage alive. My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Organizations He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Organizations
Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Organizations Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "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) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Organizations
"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Organizations Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal 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 "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Organizations
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "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) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Organizations When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Organizations
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous 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 When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Organizations Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Organizations
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) 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 Organizations The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
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Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) May you never leave your marriage alive. Organizations In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Organizations
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Organizations Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Organizations
A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Organizations It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Organizations
