If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) B We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom B
I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show 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 "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur B Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song B
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law B "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) B
Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure 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 "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW B 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) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. B
"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) B Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon B
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup B "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra B
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley B "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "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 A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller B
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 "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) B 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 "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard B
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison 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 Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) B You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) B
Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine B Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) B
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "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) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk B If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde B
