A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
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-- John Stuart Mill Financial Services In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Financial Services
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Financial Services Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Financial Services
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Financial Services When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Financial Services
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Financial Services Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Financial Services
When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers 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 All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Financial Services When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Financial Services
Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Financial Services I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Financial Services
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Financial Services There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "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) Financial Services
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Financial Services "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
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"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Financial Services In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Financial Services
"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 A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi 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 Financial Services I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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.
-- Financial Services
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Financial Services "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
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