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 Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Disability Resources When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 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 Disability Resources
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Disability Resources "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Disability Resources
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Disability Resources "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Disability Resources
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Disability Resources The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Disability Resources
"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Disability Resources Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Disability Resources
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Disability Resources He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Disability Resources
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman 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 You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Disability Resources The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Disability Resources
"One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Disability Resources "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Disability Resources
Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Disability Resources What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words 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 Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Disability Resources
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Disability Resources Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn 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 "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Disability Resources
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Disability Resources "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Disability Resources
