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Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Government Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Government
"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) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Government We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Government
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Government Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Government
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Government To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Government
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Government If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Government
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Government "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Government
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Government The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Government
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Government "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Government
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Government 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. These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Government
"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Government "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Government
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "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 Government Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Government
