blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky 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 "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Organisations Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Organisations
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Organisations Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) 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 Organisations
In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Organisations I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Organisations
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Organisations Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Organisations
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Organisations If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Organisations
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Organisations Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Organisations
"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Organisations I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) 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
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 ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Organisations "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Organisations
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Organisations Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Organisations
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Organisations Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Organisations
Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills 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 Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Organisations Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Organisations
