Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Employment "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Employment
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Employment We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Employment
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Employment Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Employment
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Employment Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Employment
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Employment No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Employment
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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. Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Employment Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Employment
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Employment "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Employment
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Employment blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Employment
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Employment "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Employment
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Employment I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Employment
If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Employment "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Employment
