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I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Employment Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Employment
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Employment I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup 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 This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Employment
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 "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Employment Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Employment
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Employment Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Employment
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Employment You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Employment
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Employment Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Employment
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Employment "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Employment
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Employment "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Employment
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Employment We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Employment
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein 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 One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Employment I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Employment
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Employment I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Employment
