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"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Arts and Entertainment We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Arts and Entertainment
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Arts and Entertainment "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Arts and Entertainment
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Arts and Entertainment Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Arts and Entertainment
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Arts and Entertainment The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "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) Arts and Entertainment
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein 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 You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Arts and Entertainment "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Arts and Entertainment
There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Arts and Entertainment Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Arts and Entertainment
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Arts and Entertainment The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Arts and Entertainment
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Arts and Entertainment Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Arts and Entertainment
It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Arts and Entertainment In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Arts and Entertainment
Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Arts and Entertainment "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Arts and Entertainment
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin 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 The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Arts and Entertainment A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Arts and Entertainment
