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"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Wakefield "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Wakefield
"Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Wakefield Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Wakefield
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig 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 I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Wakefield Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Wakefield
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Wakefield "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) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Wakefield
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Wakefield For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Wakefield
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Wakefield "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) 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 You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Wakefield
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous 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 Wakefield A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Wakefield
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Wakefield Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Wakefield
My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Wakefield Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Wakefield
We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Wakefield Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Wakefield
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Wakefield If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Wakefield
