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The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 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. Employment Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Employment
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) 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 Employment If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Employment
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Employment "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Employment
At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Employment There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Employment
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Employment Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Employment
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Employment "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Employment
Spinster: A bachelor's wife. There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Employment When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Employment
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Employment Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Employment
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Employment I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Employment
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Employment Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Employment
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Employment Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Employment
