There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Employment Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Employment
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Employment If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Employment
May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Employment Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Employment
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Employment You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Employment
"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Employment Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Employment
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Employment "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Employment
It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Employment "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) 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 Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Employment
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Employment Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Employment
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Employment If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Employment
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke 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 "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Employment The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Employment
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado 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 It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Employment "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide 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 Employment
