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Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Organizations Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Organizations
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Organizations "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Organizations
Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Organizations There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Organizations
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Organizations We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Organizations
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Organizations You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Organizations
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Organizations The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Organizations
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Organizations One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Organizations
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Organizations And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Organizations
Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Organizations We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Organizations
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Organizations 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 Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Organizations
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Organizations Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Organizations
