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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Consultants I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Consultants
He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Consultants Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Consultants
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Consultants "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Consultants
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Consultants Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous 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 A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Consultants
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi What's new? Most of my wife. There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Consultants Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner 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 "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Consultants
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus 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 Consultants What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur 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 Consultants
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Consultants A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Consultants
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Consultants The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Consultants
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Consultants There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin 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 Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Consultants
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Consultants If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Consultants
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Consultants Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder 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 Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Consultants
