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-- Oscar Wilde I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
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-- Mother Theresa Organisations Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
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-- Charlotte Whitton Organisations
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Organisations When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
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Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Organisations He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Organisations
How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Organisations Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Organisations
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Organisations The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "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 Organisations
the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein 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 "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Organisations A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Organisations
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 "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) 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 If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
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-- Winston Churchill All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Organisations
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Organisations Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Organisations
"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Organisations All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Organisations
To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Organisations Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Organisations
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Organisations A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Organisations
