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In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Chats and Forums To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Chats and Forums
"When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. "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 "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Chats and Forums Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Chats and Forums
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Chats and Forums "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Chats and Forums
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Chats and Forums Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Chats and Forums
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein 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 trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Chats and Forums Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Chats and Forums
The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Chats and Forums Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Chats and Forums
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "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 "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Chats and Forums Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Chats and Forums
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "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) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Chats and Forums "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) 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 Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Chats and Forums
My other wife is beautiful. I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show 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) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Chats and Forums A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Chats and Forums
I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Chats and Forums I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "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) Chats and Forums
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Chats and Forums I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Chats and Forums
