He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 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 The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Employment "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Employment
Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "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 Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Employment More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Employment
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Employment There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Employment
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Employment "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) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Employment
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Employment "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Employment
The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J 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 "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Employment Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Employment
Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Employment "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Employment
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "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 little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Employment "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Employment
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Employment When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Employment
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Employment >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Employment
He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Employment The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Employment
