"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Organizations Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Organizations
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "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) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Organizations It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Organizations
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Organizations If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Organizations
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Organizations If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Organizations
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Organizations If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Organizations
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Organizations "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Organizations
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Organizations Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Organizations
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Organizations Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Organizations
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Organizations To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Organizations
I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Organizations A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Organizations
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J 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 Organizations Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Organizations
