Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Human Resources The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Human Resources
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Human Resources Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Human Resources
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 We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Human Resources Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Human Resources
"People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Human Resources The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Human Resources
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Human Resources 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 "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Human Resources
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Human Resources "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Human Resources
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Human Resources A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Human Resources
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Human Resources The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Human Resources
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Human Resources When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Human Resources
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Human Resources "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) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Human Resources
"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi 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 Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Human Resources Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Human Resources
