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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 It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) 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 Engraving For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Engraving
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) 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 There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Engraving "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Engraving
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Engraving The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Engraving
"Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Engraving Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Engraving
What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Engraving I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Engraving
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Engraving The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Engraving
One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Engraving "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Engraving
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Engraving blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Engraving
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Engraving Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Engraving
Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) What's new? Most of my wife. "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Engraving If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Engraving
Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Engraving Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Engraving
