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"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) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Organizations History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Organizations
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Organizations A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Organizations
Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Organizations The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Organizations
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Organizations Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Organizations
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Organizations Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Organizations
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. 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 Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Organizations It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Organizations
"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Organizations Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Organizations
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Organizations "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Organizations
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Organizations Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford 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) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Organizations My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Organizations
"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) 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 "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Organizations Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your 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 A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Organizations
