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Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Switzerland Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Switzerland
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Switzerland 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 At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Switzerland
"A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Switzerland Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Switzerland
Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Switzerland blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Switzerland
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Switzerland "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Switzerland
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland 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 "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Switzerland Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Switzerland
"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 Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Switzerland Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Switzerland
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Switzerland He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Switzerland
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth 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 "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Switzerland "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Switzerland
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Switzerland A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Switzerland
blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Switzerland blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Switzerland
