The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Wales Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Wales
You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Wales Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Wales
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Wales blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Wales
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Wales Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Wales
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Wales When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Wales
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Wales Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright 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 And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Wales
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Wales "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar 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 Wales
I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Wales Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Wales
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Wales Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Wales
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Wales The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Wales
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Wales Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Wales
