It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Organizations "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Organizations
Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Organizations "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Organizations
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Organizations The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Organizations
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Organizations Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Organizations
"Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Organizations When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Organizations
"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." Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Organizations Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Organizations
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Organizations I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Organizations
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) 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 We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "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 When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Organizations Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Organizations
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Organizations If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "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
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Organizations My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Organizations
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Organizations Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Organizations
