"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Organizations An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Organizations
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Organizations A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Organizations
"Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) 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 Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Organizations When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Organizations
Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Organizations It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Organizations
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Organizations Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Organizations
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Organizations I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
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Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Organizations If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Organizations
"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) I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Marriage is a rest period between romances. Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Organizations Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Organizations
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 "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "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 Organizations I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Organizations
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Organizations Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Organizations
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Organizations The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
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