If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Irpin "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Irpin
"That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Irpin Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Irpin
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Irpin I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Irpin
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Irpin I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Irpin
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Irpin A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Irpin
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Irpin "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Irpin
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Irpin An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Irpin
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Irpin If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Irpin
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Irpin The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Irpin
Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Irpin If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Irpin
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Irpin Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Irpin
