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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Organizations I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Organizations
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Organizations Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Organizations
Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Organizations Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Organizations
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman 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 I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Organizations Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Organizations
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Organizations It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Organizations
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon 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" 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 "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Organizations Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Organizations
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Organizations The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Organizations
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Organizations Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Organizations
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Organizations "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "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 By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Organizations
If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Organizations "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Organizations
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Organizations Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Organizations
