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"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Organizations I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Organizations
To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Organizations Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Organizations
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Organizations "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "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) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Organizations
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Organizations "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Organizations
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from 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 Organizations The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Organizations
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Organizations Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Organizations
"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) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia 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 And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Organizations "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Organizations
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer 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 The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Organizations When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Organizations
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Organizations "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Organizations
You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Organizations "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) 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 Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Organizations
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "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) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Organizations Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Organizations
