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Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cćsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Associations "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Associations
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack 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 "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Associations "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Associations
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Associations Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Associations
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Associations Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson 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 Associations
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Associations One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Associations
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Associations Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Associations
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Associations When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Associations
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Associations Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Associations
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Associations The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Associations
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Associations Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Associations
He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Associations Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Associations
