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The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Judaism Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Judaism
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Judaism Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Judaism
Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Judaism There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Judaism
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Judaism Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Judaism
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Judaism Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Judaism
"What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "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 The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Judaism Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Judaism
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Judaism "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Judaism
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Judaism The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Judaism
If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "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) Judaism Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Judaism
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Judaism "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Judaism
When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Judaism Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "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, Judaism
