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"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Organisations "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Organisations
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Organisations Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Organisations
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Organisations In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Organisations
He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Organisations The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Organisations
"People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Organisations This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Organisations
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Organisations Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Organisations
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Organisations Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Organisations
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Organisations What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Organisations
"I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "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 Organisations Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Organisations
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "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 Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Organisations "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Organisations
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Organisations Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Organisations
