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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Organisations "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Organisations
"Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Organisations "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Organisations
When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Organisations Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Organisations
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Organisations Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Organisations
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Organisations You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Organisations
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Organisations Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Organisations
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Organisations We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Organisations
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Organisations I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Organisations
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Organisations "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Organisations
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Organisations "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Organisations
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Organisations It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Organisations
