In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Tools and Accessories "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Tools and Accessories
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Tools and Accessories "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Tools and Accessories
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham 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 Tools and Accessories Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Tools and Accessories
You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Tools and Accessories >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Tools and Accessories
"Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "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." "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Tools and Accessories 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 "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Tools and Accessories
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Tools and Accessories Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Tools and Accessories
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Tools and Accessories Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Tools and Accessories
"... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Tools and Accessories He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Tools and Accessories
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Tools and Accessories "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Tools and Accessories
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Tools and Accessories Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Tools and Accessories
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Tools and Accessories "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Tools and Accessories
