"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Employment I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Employment
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Employment 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 The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Employment
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "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) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Employment The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Employment
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie 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 Employment A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Employment
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Employment A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Employment
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Employment blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) 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, "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) Employment
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Employment Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein 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.
-- Winston Churchill "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Employment
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Employment What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Employment
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Employment Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Employment
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon 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 The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous 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 "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Employment "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Employment
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Employment For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Employment
