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Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren 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 Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Mayfield "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Mayfield
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Mayfield Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Mayfield
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Mayfield The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Mayfield
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 "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Mayfield The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Mayfield
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Mayfield If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Mayfield
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Mayfield "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Mayfield
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "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." My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Mayfield Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Mayfield
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Mayfield "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Mayfield
"Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Mayfield To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Mayfield
The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "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." Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Mayfield Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac 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 I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Mayfield
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Mayfield Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Mayfield
