Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Organisations "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Organisations
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Organisations "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Organisations
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Organisations The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Organisations
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Organisations "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Organisations
Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Organisations "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Organisations
"Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Organisations The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Organisations
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) 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 Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Organisations A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Organisations
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Organisations Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Organisations
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th 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 Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Organisations >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Organisations
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Organisations "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Organisations
"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Organisations "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Organisations
