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The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Organizations 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 The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Organizations
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Organizations Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Organizations
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Organizations My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Organizations
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Organizations One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Organizations
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Organizations Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Organizations
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Organizations What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Organizations
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Organizations There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux 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 Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Organizations
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Organizations All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Organizations
Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Organizations "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Organizations
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Organizations I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Organizations
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Organizations Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
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