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Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Careers >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Careers
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Careers "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Careers
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Careers Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Careers
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Careers I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Careers
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Careers "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Careers
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Careers "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) 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, 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 Careers
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Careers Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Careers
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Careers "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Careers
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Careers When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Careers
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Careers The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Careers
Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Careers Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Careers
