Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein By Locality Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) By Locality
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) By Locality I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting By Locality
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) By Locality Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) By Locality
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb By Locality We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be By Locality
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau By Locality A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain By Locality
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt By Locality "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) By Locality
"The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) By Locality Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy By Locality
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer By Locality I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer By Locality
"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) By Locality Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley By Locality
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "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) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield By Locality Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker By Locality
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol By Locality My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 By Locality
