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 person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Associations 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 Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Associations
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "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) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Associations When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Associations
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Associations If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Associations
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Associations "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Associations
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle 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 Associations "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Associations
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 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 Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Associations Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard 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 I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Associations
We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Associations Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Associations
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Associations If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Associations
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara 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 "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Associations It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Associations
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Associations One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Associations
Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Associations I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Associations
