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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) 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 "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Transport 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 Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Transport
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r 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 Transport Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Transport
Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Transport Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Transport
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Transport Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Transport
"If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Transport With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Transport
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Transport What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Transport
Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Transport Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transport
In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Transport Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Transport
I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward 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 The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Transport The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Transport
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead 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 Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Transport "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Transport
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller 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 Transport "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Transport
