I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal 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 "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Engineers and Managers Association It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Engineers and Managers Association
In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Engineers and Managers Association Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C 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 The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Engineers and Managers Association
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Engineers and Managers Association "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Engineers and Managers Association
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Engineers and Managers Association In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Engineers and Managers Association
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Engineers and Managers Association Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Engineers and Managers Association
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Engineers and Managers Association Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith "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) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Engineers and Managers Association
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Engineers and Managers Association "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Engineers and Managers Association
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Engineers and Managers Association Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Engineers and Managers Association
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 A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Engineers and Managers Association The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Engineers and Managers Association
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Engineers and Managers Association Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Engineers and Managers Association
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Engineers and Managers Association "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Engineers and Managers Association
