In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
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-- Steve Bluestone We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Organisations I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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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 My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Organisations "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Organisations
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
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that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Organisations History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
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-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Organisations
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Organisations The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
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-- Thomas Carlyle I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
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Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Organisations "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
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Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Organisations Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
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"One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Organisations "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Organisations
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Organisations When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Organisations
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Organisations Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Organisations
There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Organisations My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Organisations
