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Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Employment True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Employment
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce 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 "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Employment You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Employment
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Employment Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Employment
I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Employment Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Employment
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "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) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Employment The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Employment
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Employment Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Employment
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Employment The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Employment
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and 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 "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Employment "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Employment
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Employment "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Employment
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Employment You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Employment
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Employment "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Employment
