Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "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 Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) By County If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson By County
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings 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 It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca By County 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 The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley By County
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 The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" By County We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis By County
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) By County We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler By County
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein By County "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short By County
"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, A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein 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 By County "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln By County
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone By County It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 By County
If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 By County Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. By County
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "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 Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous By County If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes By County
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi By County "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca By County
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) By County "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan By County
