"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Employment "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Employment
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner 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 Employment Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Employment
The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Employment Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson 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 Employment
Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Employment "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Employment
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Employment blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Employment
Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Employment Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
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I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Employment Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Employment
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Employment While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Employment
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Employment It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Employment
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton 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 Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Employment A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Employment
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Employment The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Employment
