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Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "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) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Organisations Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Organisations
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West 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 Organisations Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Organisations
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 "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Organisations The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Organisations
the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Organisations "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Organisations
"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Organisations The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Organisations
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Organisations In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Organisations
Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. 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 When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Organisations There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Organisations
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Organisations blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Organisations
Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Organisations Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Organisations
If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Organisations "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Organisations
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils 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 Unhappy Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Organisations Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Organisations
