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What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Bedford There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Bedford
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Bedford Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Bedford
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Bedford If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Bedford
Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Bedford 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've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Bedford
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Bedford The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Bedford
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Bedford All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Bedford
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 Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Bedford 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 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 Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Bedford
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Bedford He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) 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 "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) Bedford
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Bedford Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Bedford
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Bedford "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Bedford
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Bedford Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Bedford
