Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "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) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Organisations What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Organisations
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Organisations Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Organisations
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Organisations Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Organisations
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "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) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Organisations When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Organisations
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Organisations "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Organisations
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Organisations Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Organisations
I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Organisations The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Organisations
Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Organisations "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Organisations
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "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) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Organisations Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Organisations
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson 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 Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Organisations Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Organisations
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter 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 University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Organisations Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker 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 Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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