Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Employment Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Employment
"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 "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Employment "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Employment
The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Employment "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Employment
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 Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Employment Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Employment
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Employment The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Employment
For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Employment The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Employment
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Employment Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Employment
Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Employment "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, What's new? Most of my wife. Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Employment
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) 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 Employment Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Employment
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Employment Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Employment
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Employment "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Employment
