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A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Amsterdam The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words 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.
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Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "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) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Amsterdam He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Amsterdam
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Amsterdam "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Amsterdam
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Amsterdam "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Amsterdam
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Amsterdam The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Amsterdam
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Amsterdam Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Amsterdam
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Amsterdam We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Amsterdam
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Amsterdam The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Amsterdam
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. The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Amsterdam There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Amsterdam
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Amsterdam I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "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) Amsterdam
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Amsterdam "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Amsterdam
