The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
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-- Gen. George Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Oil and Gas Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
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-- General Douglas MacArthur "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Oil and Gas
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Oil and Gas Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Oil and Gas
Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Oil and Gas If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Oil and Gas
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Oil and Gas There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Oil and Gas
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Oil and Gas "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Oil and Gas
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Oil and Gas I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
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-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Oil and Gas
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Oil and Gas It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Oil and Gas
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Oil and Gas A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Oil and Gas
Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Oil and Gas The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Oil and Gas
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Oil and Gas Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Oil and Gas
I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Oil and Gas Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Oil and Gas
