A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Organisations Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Organisations
"I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Organisations Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Organisations
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "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 Organisations Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Organisations
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Organisations It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Organisations
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington 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 "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) Organisations Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Organisations
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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. When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Organisations Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Organisations
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Organisations "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Organisations
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Organisations Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage is a rest period between romances. Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Organisations
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Organisations "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Organisations
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Organisations I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Organisations
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Organisations They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
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