Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Arts and Entertainment If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Arts and Entertainment
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Arts and Entertainment Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Arts and Entertainment
What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Arts and Entertainment "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Arts and Entertainment
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Arts and Entertainment "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Arts and Entertainment
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Arts and Entertainment "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 Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Arts and Entertainment
I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion 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 There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Arts and Entertainment Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Arts and Entertainment
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Arts and Entertainment Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Arts and Entertainment "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Arts and Entertainment
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Arts and Entertainment "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Arts and Entertainment
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Arts and Entertainment Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Arts and Entertainment
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Arts and Entertainment "The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
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