"Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Agencies May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Agencies Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Agencies
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Agencies A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Agencies
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Agencies We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Agencies
Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Agencies Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Agencies
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Agencies Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Agencies
You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Agencies Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Agencies
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Agencies I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Agencies
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Agencies Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Agencies
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Agencies The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Agencies
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Agencies A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Agencies
