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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Organizations Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
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-- Lord Byron Organizations
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Organizations A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac 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.
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bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Organizations
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Organizations "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Organizations
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
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-- John Kenneth Galbraith "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Organizations "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Organizations
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Organizations If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Organizations
"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "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) Organizations The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
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I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Organizations "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Organizations
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) 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. I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
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"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "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 When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Organizations 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 Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Organizations
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Organizations A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Organizations
And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Organizations With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Organizations
