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They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Organizations Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Organizations
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Organizations Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Organizations
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Organizations Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Organizations
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Organizations Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Organizations
Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Organizations The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Organizations
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Organizations "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Organizations
The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty 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, Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Organizations Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Organizations
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Organizations "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Organizations
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Organizations You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly 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 Organizations
Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Organizations Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Organizations
The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Organizations Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Organizations
