Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Organizations "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) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Organizations
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Organizations Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Organizations
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Organizations "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
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Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison 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 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 Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Organizations Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Organizations
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Organizations "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Organizations
"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Organizations It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Organizations
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Organizations It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Organizations
Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry 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 Organizations "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Organizations
"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) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Organizations Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Organizations
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Organizations "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Organizations
"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "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 Organizations May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Organizations
