People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Networking Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Networking
Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. My other wife is beautiful. "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Networking When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Networking
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Networking If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Networking
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Networking When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Networking
The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Networking Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Networking
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Networking "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Networking
Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry 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 Networking The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Networking
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Networking "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Networking
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Networking "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Networking
Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) 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 A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere 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 Networking The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Networking
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Networking The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Networking
