The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Public Utilities All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Public Utilities
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Public Utilities The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "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) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Public Utilities
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton 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 "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Public Utilities A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Public Utilities
People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Public Utilities Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Public Utilities
"I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Public Utilities The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Public Utilities
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Public Utilities Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Public Utilities
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop "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) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Public Utilities The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Public Utilities
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Public Utilities "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Public Utilities
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Public Utilities "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Public Utilities
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "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 Public Utilities You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Public Utilities
Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Public Utilities Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Public Utilities
