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-- Wehrner von Braun Employment "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Employment
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Employment Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Employment
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Employment The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
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-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Employment
Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Employment Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Employment
To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Employment Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Employment
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
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-- Red Buttons Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
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We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Employment "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Employment
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Employment Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Employment
"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
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- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Employment
"Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Employment "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Employment
your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Employment "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Employment
