The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Pavlohrad "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) 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 Pavlohrad
All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Pavlohrad Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Pavlohrad
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Pavlohrad I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Pavlohrad
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Pavlohrad More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Pavlohrad
"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Pavlohrad Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Pavlohrad
Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Pavlohrad It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Pavlohrad
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Pavlohrad Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Pavlohrad
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Pavlohrad A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Pavlohrad
"A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. 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 "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Pavlohrad "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Pavlohrad
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Pavlohrad It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa What's new? Most of my wife. Pavlohrad
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Pavlohrad I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Pavlohrad
