Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Parks It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "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) 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 Parks
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Parks Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Parks
"I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) 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 Parks Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Parks
Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Parks Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Parks
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple 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 Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins 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 Parks "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) 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 Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Parks
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "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) Parks If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Parks
When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates 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 One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Parks "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Parks
"Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Parks If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Parks
"We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Parks "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Parks
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Parks blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Parks
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Parks The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Parks
