"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Health Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Health
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Health Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Health
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle 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 Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Health Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Health
Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz 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 "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Health The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Health
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Health How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "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) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Health
Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Health Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Health
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Health Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Health
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Health Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Health
"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) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Health Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Health
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Health The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Health
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Health An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Health
