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In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Boxted Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Boxted
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Boxted Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Boxted
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Boxted "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller 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 Boxted
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law 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 Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Boxted May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Boxted
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Boxted Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Boxted
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Boxted 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 Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Boxted
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Boxted A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Boxted
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith May you never leave your marriage alive. The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Boxted Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Boxted
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Boxted It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Boxted
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Boxted Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Boxted
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers 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 Boxted They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Boxted
