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 I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. By Department If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman By Department
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison By Department Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) By Department
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine By Department Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g 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 By Department
"To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) By Department Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid By Department
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e 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 Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe By Department Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By Department
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. By Department Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball By Department
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard By Department blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye By Department Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart By Department
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou By Department After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. By Department
CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) By Department Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche By Department
It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere By Department That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler By Department
