"The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Employment In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Employment
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Employment If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Employment
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Employment Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Employment
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Employment A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Employment
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Employment The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Employment
Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Employment Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Employment
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Employment "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Employment
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen 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 Employment This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Employment
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Employment "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Employment
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 My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Employment "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Employment
"REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Employment "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Employment
