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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Organisations A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers 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 Organisations
Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Organisations Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Organisations
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Organisations Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Organisations
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Organisations The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "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) Organisations
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison 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 Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Organisations No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Organisations
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Organisations The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Organisations
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-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Organisations We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Organisations
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye 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 Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Organisations "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Organisations
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Organisations Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Organisations
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Organisations If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Organisations
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Organisations Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Organisations
