It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Employment I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Employment
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Employment "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Employment
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Employment 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 The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Employment
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Employment "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Employment
"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Employment I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Employment
We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Employment >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Employment
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Employment When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Employment
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Employment Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Employment
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 "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Employment Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Employment
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Employment "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Employment
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Employment With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Employment
