Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Employment There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 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 Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Employment
Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx 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 To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Employment If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Employment
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Employment Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Employment
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Employment When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Employment
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Employment A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Employment
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Employment You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Employment
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) 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 don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Employment "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Employment
"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 Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Employment Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Employment
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Marriage is a rest period between romances. "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Employment The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Employment
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Employment There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Employment
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward 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 "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Employment This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Employment
