"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Sales Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "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 "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Sales
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Sales Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Sales
A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Sales It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "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) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Sales
"There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Sales There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Sales
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Sales Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "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) Sales
Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Sales If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Sales
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Sales "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sales
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Sales Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Sales
You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Sales Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Sales
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi 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 Sales "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Sales
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Sales Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Sales
