The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Localities Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Localities
"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason 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 Localities I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Localities
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Localities "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Localities
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Localities Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Localities
"Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Localities Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Localities
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Localities Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Localities
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Localities "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Localities
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Localities I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Localities
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Localities Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Localities
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Localities "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Localities
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Localities We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Localities
