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The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Benchmarking "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Benchmarking
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Benchmarking 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 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 Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Benchmarking
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Benchmarking A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Benchmarking
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Benchmarking Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Benchmarking
"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Benchmarking My other wife is beautiful. Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard 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 Benchmarking
May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Benchmarking You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Benchmarking
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Benchmarking The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Benchmarking
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Benchmarking 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 "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Benchmarking
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Benchmarking If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Benchmarking
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Benchmarking I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Benchmarking
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Benchmarking "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Benchmarking
