"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') 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? International Cooperation If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team International Cooperation
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) 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 Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock International Cooperation It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST 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. International Cooperation
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln International Cooperation "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin International Cooperation
"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package International Cooperation Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata International Cooperation
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "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) International Cooperation We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 International Cooperation
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) International Cooperation My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black International Cooperation
The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan International Cooperation "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin International Cooperation
Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb International Cooperation A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier 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 "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) International Cooperation
"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure International Cooperation Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde International Cooperation
"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright International Cooperation "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne International Cooperation
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST International Cooperation Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) International Cooperation
