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In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Watford "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Watford
"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) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Watford Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Watford
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Watford "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Watford
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Watford A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Watford
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Watford You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Watford
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Watford I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) Watford
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Man and wife make one fool. Watford He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Watford
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Watford Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Watford
Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Watford "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Watford
"I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Watford The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Watford
Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Watford "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Watford
