The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Employment Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Employment
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Employment "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Employment
"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) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Employment Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Employment
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Employment Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Employment
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Employment "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Employment
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Employment When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Employment
"The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Employment Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Employment
We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Employment "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Employment
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne 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" Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Employment "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Employment
"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Employment When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Employment
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Employment "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve 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