Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Tammela Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Tammela
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Tammela Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Tammela
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric 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 Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Tammela Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) 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 Tammela
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Tammela You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Tammela
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Tammela In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac 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 "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Tammela
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Tammela "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Tammela
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Tammela 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 Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Tammela
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Tammela The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Tammela
"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Tammela I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Tammela
The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Tammela If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Tammela
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Tammela Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Tammela
