I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
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-- Bill Parcels, New Engla The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Organizations As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
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There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Organizations The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short "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 Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Organizations
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of 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 We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Organizations Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
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People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) 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 Organizations It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Organizations
Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
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- Aristotle You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Organizations
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Organizations A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Organizations
To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Organizations "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Organizations
blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Organizations Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Organizations
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Organizations Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Organizations
There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Organizations Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Organizations
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Organizations To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a 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 Organizations
