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"I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Organisations Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Organisations
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Organisations If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Organisations
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau 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 Organisations If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Organisations
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller 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 Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Organisations "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Organisations
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Organisations Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Organisations
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Organisations The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) 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 Organisations
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Organisations "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Organisations
"When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Organisations There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Organisations
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Organisations "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) 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 The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Organisations
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Organisations When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Organisations
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Organisations Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Organisations
