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"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Burghead 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 A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Burghead
I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Burghead Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Burghead
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein My other wife is beautiful. The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Burghead It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Burghead
"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Burghead One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Burghead
"Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Burghead To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Burghead
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken 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 Burghead Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Burghead
"Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Burghead Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Burghead
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Burghead Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Burghead
We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Burghead I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Burghead
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Burghead We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Burghead
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Burghead By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Burghead
