When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Organizations He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Organizations
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Organizations Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Organizations
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Organizations "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) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Organizations
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Organizations When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "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 Organizations
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Organizations It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Organizations
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Organizations "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) 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 "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Organizations
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "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) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Organizations I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Organizations
"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "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 Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Organizations He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Organizations
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Organizations "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Organizations
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Organizations No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Organizations
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz 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 Organizations Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway 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
