"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Employment It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Employment
Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) 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 "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Employment The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) 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 Employment
"Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Employment "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Employment
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Employment "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Employment
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 most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Employment "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Employment
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Employment Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Employment
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Employment The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Employment
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Employment Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Employment
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Employment "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Employment
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Employment This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Employment
When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Employment 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 Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Employment
