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 "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Organisations Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Organisations
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Organisations My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Organisations
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Organisations Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Organisations
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire 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 In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Organisations The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Organisations
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Organisations The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell 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 Organisations
"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) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Organisations Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Organisations
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Organisations It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Organisations
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Organisations "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Organisations
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb 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 They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Organisations For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Organisations
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Organisations All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Organisations
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Organisations Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Organisations
