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-- Buck Henry Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Professional Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
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-- Joseph Addison "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Professional
Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Professional A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Professional
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Professional "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Professional
"One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Professional "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Professional
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Professional 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 The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Professional
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Professional Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Professional
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "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) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Professional He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Professional
"My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Professional Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Professional
"Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Professional "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Professional
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Professional Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Professional
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that 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 The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Professional Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Professional
