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Real happiness is cheap enough, 
 yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit       
                                             -- Hosea Ballou
Happiness is when what you think, what you say,
 and what you do are in harmony               
                                   -- Mohandas Gandhi
To Remind today's generations ....
 That War is more grim than glorious.
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.
 It is not attained through self-gratification
 but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.      
                                          -- Helen Keller
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves,
 and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.   
                                          -- Agnes Repplier
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.     
                                                            -- Bertrand Russell
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. 
                                                     -- Gilbert Keith Chesterton
My country, right or wrong, is a thing that no patriot would think of saying
 except in a desperate case.
 It is like saying "My mother, drunk or sober". 
                                     -- Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Women often want men to change, and are disappointed when they stay the same
 Men often want women to stay the same and are disappointed when they change.   
                                                             -- Mardy Grothe
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted
                                                            -- Aesop
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophy.
 Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; 
 the philosophy is kindness.                
                                   -- The Dalai Lama
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
 for you never know how soon it will be too late. 
                                -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kindness is loving people more than they deserve. 
                                              -- Joseph Joubert
That best portion of a good man's life 
 His little nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love 
                           -- William Wordsworth from Tintern Abbey
Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies. 
                                            -- Honore de Balzac
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. 
                                                    -- Honore de Balzac
Marriage must constantly fight against a monster which devours everything: 
 routine. 
                                               -- Honore de Balzac
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin 
                                                          -- Honore de Balzac
To live outside the law, you must be honest.
 From "Absolutely Sweet Maria" (1968)         
                                        -- Boby Dylan
When a person's down in the world, 
 I think an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching
                                                 -- 1803, Edward Bulwer-Lyton
The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it 
 seems to me the deepest root of all evil is in the world
                                                             -- Max Born
Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth. 
                                                             -- Kahlil Gibran
Believe those who are seeking the truth.
 Doubt those who find it.  
                               -- Andre Gide
Seek the company of those who seek the truth,
 and run away from those who have found it. 
                                         -- Vaclav Havel
When the white man came,
 we had the land they had the bibles.
 Now they have the land and we have the bibles.
                                              -- Chief Dan George
No matter how far we travel, the memories will follow in the baggage car.
                                                     -- August Strindberg
A cheese may disappoint.  
 It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated.
 Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap towards immortality. 
                                           -- Clifton Fadiman
To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history. 
                                                              -- Clifton Fadiman
Can love and peace live in the same heart?
 Youth is unhappy because it is faced with this terrible choice: 
 Love without peace, or peace without love.
                                -- The Barber of Seville  Pierre de Beaumarchais
Where love is concerned, too much is not ever enough!
                                         -- Pierre de Beaumarchais
To obtain a woman who loves you, you must treat her as if she didn't.
                                           -- Pierre de Beaumarchais
If you want to live a happy life,
 tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.
                                            -- Albert Einstein
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
                                                       -- Viktor E Frank
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
                                     -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.  
                                                      -- Sigmund Freud
Sometimes I wonder which is worse,
 confrontational people who are afraid of caring
 or caring people who are afraid of confrontation.
                                                  -- Laura Little
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
                                                             -- Victor Hugo
The only people in the world who can change things are those who can sell ideas.
                                                                   -- Lois Wyse
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
 instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
                                                      -- Judy Garland
We can't reach old age by another man's road.
               -- Mark Twain (offered at his 70th birthday party)
Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich. 
                                                      -- Peter Ustinov
If you ride a horse, sit close and tight,
 If you ride a man, sit easy and light.
                                         -- Benjamin Franklin
A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. 
                                            -- Benjamin Franklin
Life is like riding a bicycle.
 To keep your balance you must keep moving.
                                         -- Albert Einstein
You cannot depend on your judgements when your imagination is out of focus.
                                                             -- Mark Twain
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. 
                                                          -- Mark Twain
Be careful in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.  
                                                           -- Mark Twain
Someone told me life is a water wheel.  It turns.
 The trick is to hold your nose when you're under
 and not get dizzy when your're up. 
                                                    -- James Baldwin
Life is like a game of cards.
 The hand that is dealt you represents determinism;
 the way you play it is free will.
                                                  -- Jawaharial Nehru
Life is like a ten-speed bicycle.
 Most of us have gears we never use. 
                                        -- Charles M Schulz
In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer.
                                       --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
 while others judge us by what we have already done.
                                         -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues. 
                                         -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; 
 if our government is to function, it must have dissent. 
                                              -- Henry Steele Commager
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous.
 They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive. 
                                                               -- Henry Steele Commager
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; 
 not only plan, but also believe.
                                               -- Anatole France
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, 
 they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
                                            -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
                                                           -- Kahil Gibran
Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
                                        -- James Russell Lowell
Life is like a beautiful flirt, whom we love and to whom, 
 finally we grant every condition she imposes 
 as long as she doesn't leave us. 
                                             -- Giovanni Giacomo Casanova
We are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. 
                                             -- Martin Luther King, Jr
Marriage is a mistake every man should make.
                                            -- George Jessel
The human brain is a wonderful thing.
 It starts working the moment you are born,
 and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. 
                                            -- George Jessel
Life is the game that must be played.
                                    -- Edward Arlington Robinson
There is a good deal to live for,
 but a man has to go through hell really to find it out. 
                                    -- Edward Arlington Robinson
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
                                            -- William James
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. 
 No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
                                            -- Ellen Glasgow
Too much principle is often more harmful than too little. 
                                        -- Ellen Glasgow
He that makes his pleasure his business,
 will never make his business be a pleasure.
                                           -- Daniel Defoe
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life;
 the thorns should never be plucked from his roses. 
                                                       -- Ellen Key
A director (Project Manager) must be a policeman,  a midwife, a psychoanalyst, 
 a sycophant, and a bastard. 
                                             -- Billy Wilder
If you are going to tell people the truth,
 be funny or they'll kill you.
                                             -- Billy Wilder
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.                                 
                                                                -- Christopher Morley
Too much praise makes you feel you must be doing something terribly wrong.
                                                              -- Dorothy Day
Praise, like penicillin must not be administered haphazardly.
                                              -- Haim Ginott
Character builds slowly, 
 but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
                                               -- Faith Baldwin
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, 
 and silence is full of music.
                                                    -- Marcel Marceau
Too much truth is uncouth.
                                -- Franklin Pierce Adams
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something
 and finding something else on the way. 
                                                               -- Franklin Pierce Adams
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
                                                           -- Walter Bagehot
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
                                                         -- Walter Bagehot
An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
                                                            -- Walter Bagehot
If you are not honest with yourself, you cannot tell the truth to other people.
                                                              --  Mardy Grothe
When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. 
                                             -- Mary Kay Ash
No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. 
                                                          -- Voltaire
Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial. 
                                                         -- H Ross Perot
Life is like a cobweb, not an organisation chart. 
                                                 -- H Ross Perot
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.
 They quit on the one yard line.
 They give up at the last minute of the game, 
 one foot from a winning touchdown.
                                          -- H Ross Perot
Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment.
 As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense 
 of balance, humility, and commitment. 
                                                           -- H Ross Perot
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
                                    -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Experience shows that love does not consist in gazing at each other
 but in looking together in the same direction.
                                       -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood
 and don't assign them tasks and work, 
 but rather teach them a yearning for the immensity of the sea.
                                            -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I never mind my wife having the last word.
 In fact, I'm delighted when she gets to it.
                                            -- Walter Matthau
The most tragic flaw of all is to believe something is wrong with everyone else,
 and that nothing is wrong with you.
                                            --  Mardy Grothe
I have no trouble with my enemies.
 I can take care of my enemies all right.
 But my friends, my goddammed friends,
 they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!                      
                                                -- Warren G Harding
When you blame others, you give up your power to change. 
                                                  -- Douglas Adams
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders,
 but they have never failed to imitate them.
                                               -- James Baldwin
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
                                                          -- Lenny Bruce
Dreams and goals are coming attractions in your life. 
                                                    -- Joseph Campbell
Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, 
 life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
                                            -- Langston Hughes
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
                                              -- Carl Sandburg
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
                                                        -- Paul Valery
Life is never easy for those who dream. 
                                        -- Robert James Waller
The road to success is always under construction. 
                                              -- Arnold Palmer
The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done. 
                                                                              -- Arnold Palmer
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. 
                                          -- Benjamin Disraeli
Honest criticism is hard to take, 
 particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
                                                    -- Franklin P Jones
He has a right to criticise, who has a heart to help. 
                                                     -- Abraham Lincoln
Pray that success does not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
                                                        -- Elbert Hubbard
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy 
 as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
                                                        -- Elbert Hubbard
Marriage is not a reform school.
                                   -- Ann Landers
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told 
 that sorrow knows how to swim.  
                                            -- Ann Landers
Hate is like acid.  
 It can damage the vessel in which it is stored 
 as well as destroy the object on which it is poured.
                                                      -- Ann Landers
Most of us recognise how important it is to listen respectfully when our 
 loved ones are talking; but we often forget that it is equally important
 to talk respectfully when they are listening. 
                                                         --  Mardy Grothe
One recognises one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it
                                                        -- Albert Camus
Do not go where the path may lead, 
 go instead where there is no path 
 and leave a trail. 
                                 -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.
                                                        -- Kahil Gibran
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less travelled by,
 And that has made all the difference.       -- Robert Frost
Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.
                                           -- Henry David Thoreau
Women forget all those things they don't want to remember,
 and remember everything they don't want to forget.
                                                  -- Zora Neale Hurston
Research is formalised curiosity.
 It is poking and prying with a purpose.
                                        -- Zora Neale Hurston
I'd always rather be with people who loved me too little
 rather than with people who loved me too much.
                                        -- Katherine Mansfield
A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed. 
                                            -- Coco Chanel
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
                                           -- William James
Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.
                                        -- Lorraine Hansberry
A relationship is like a shark.
 It has to constantly move forward or it dies.
                                        -- Woody Allen
Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you. 
                                        -- Joey Adams
Don't worry about avoiding temptation,
 as you get older, it will avoid you.
                                        -- Joey Adams
Middle age is when the narrow waist and the broad mind begin to change places.  
                                                                -- Joey Adams
An average tool in the best hands will always produce better results
 than the best tool in average hands. 
                                                       -- Don Groves
Literature is mostly about having sex, and not much about having babies.
 Life is the other way round.
                                                         -- David Lodge
Giving is true having.
                         -- C H Spurgeon
Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it.
 There is no fool so great as a knowing fool. 
                                                 -- C H Spurgeon
Charm is a woman's strength, just as strength is a man's charm.
                                             -- Havelock Ellis
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
                                   -- Woodrow Wilson
Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity. 
                                           -- Anais Nin
A miser grows rich by seeming poor;
 an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
                                               --  William Shenstone
We hate those faults most in others which we are guilty of ourselves.
                                                -- William Shenstone
You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them.  
 But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power, 
 he's free again.
                                                          -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle. 
                                                                   -- Heinrich Heine
I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately.  
 Then there will be at least one man to regret my death.
                                                                  -- Heinrich Heine
Government is like a baby.
 An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end
 and no sense of responsibility at the other.
                                              -- Ronald Reagan
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession.
 I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
                                                 -- Ronald Reagan
Anybody can win,
 unless there happens to be a second entry.
                                            -- George Ade
I wish people who have trouble communicating, 
 would just shut up.
                                             -- Tom Lehrer
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, 
 and just as hard to sleep after.
                                  -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The greatest problem of communication is the illusion that it has been accomplished.
                                                             -- George Bernard Shaw
I Loathe people who keep dogs.
 They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
                                                -- August Strindberg
All the things I really like to do are:
 either immoral, illegal or fattening.
                                        -- Alexander Woollcott
I told the doctor I was overtired, anxiety-ridden, compulsively active,
 constantly depressed, with recurring fits of paranoia.
 Turns out I'm normal. 
                                                      -- Jules Feiffer 
At 16 I was stupid, confused and indecisive.
 At 25 I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive.
 At 45 I am stupid, confused, insecure, and indecisive.
 Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?
                                                            -- Jules Feiffer  
It is often said that understanding does not indicate agreement.
 It is less well accepted, but also true,
 that agreement does not always indicate understanding.
                                                -- Mardy Grothe
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
                                           -- Will Durant
Once you have decided that winning isn't everything, 
 you become a winner.
                                  -- George Sheehan
Hope is generally a wrong guide,
 though it is good company along the way.  
                                          -- George Savile
Here's a piece of advice that has always served me well:
 when you have trouble writing, try speaking;
 when you have trouble speaking, try writing.
                                             -- Mardy Grothe
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
                           -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Life is like a game of cards.
 The hand that is dealt you represents determinism.
 The way you play it is free will.
                                        -- Jawaharial Nehru
Life is like a ten-speed bicycle.
 Most of us have gears we never use.
                                     -- Charles M. Schulz
Life is like a play: it's not the length,
 but the excellence of the acting that matters.
                                                -- Seneca
There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation 
                                                  -- John Ciardi
I want to die young at a ripe old age          -- Ashley Montagu
Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally 
 in the name of reason.
                                                      -- Ashley Montagu
The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television.  
 What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
                                     -- Ashley Montagu
Today, while the titular head of the family may still be the father, 
 everyone knows that he is little more than chairman,
 at most, of the entertainment committee. 
                                                 -- Ashley Montagu
The voice of reason is inaudible to irrational people.
                                                 -- Mardy Grothe
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that can happen to a man.
                                                      -- Leon Trotsky
If we had more time for discussion, 
 we probably would have made a great many more mistakes.  
                                        -- Leon Trotsky
Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
                                                                 -- Leon Trotsky
Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.
                                        -- Lorraine Hansberry
Never lose a holy curiosity.
                            -- Albert Einstein
Never be in a hurry; 
 do everything quietly and in a calm spirit.  
 Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, 
 even if your whole world seems upset.
                                      -- Sir Francis de Sales
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.
                                               -- Sir Francis de Sales
Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
                                                          -- Faith Baldwin
Character consists of what you can do on the third and fourth tries.
                                                -- James A Michener
One can acquire everything in solitude 
 - except character.
                                       -- Stendhal
The best index to a person's character is how he treats people
 who can't do him any good, 
 and how he treats people who can't fight back.
                                                  -- Abigail Van Buren
Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them. 
                                                         -- Robert Lynd
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
                                                             -- Robert Lynd
The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be 
 one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
                                                        -- Robert Lynd 
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, 
 fitter to bruise than polish.
                                    -- Anne Bradstreet
Do not bite the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
                                                       -- Thomas Jefferson
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics 
 that it can never be fully learned.
                                      -- Izaak Walton
As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
                                         -- Izaak Walton
Conversation is like a dance, 
 you must know the steps, 
 and you must dance in step with your partner. 
                                               -- Loren Ekroth
Many people have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.  
 It is not attained through self-gratification
 but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. 
                                                 -- Helen Keller
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
                                          -- Anais Nin
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.                     
                                                        -- Mark Twain
The shoe that fits one person pinches another, 
 there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. 
                                        -- Carl Jung
If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint' 
 then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
                                      -- Vincent van Gogh
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else, 
 is the greatest accomplishment.
                                                        -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years,
 that minute he begins to be old.
                                         -- William James
One can never consent to creep, when one feels an impulse to soar.                                  
                                                  -- Helen Keller
We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
                                            -- Anais Nin
It is not good to have too much liberty. 
 It is not good to have all one wants. 
                                       -- Blaise Pascal
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully
 as when they do it from religious conviction.
                                              -- Blaise Pascal
Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, 
 particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.                 
                                                   -- Clifton Fadiman
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
                                -- Frank Leahy
Architect, n.  
 One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. 
                                                    -- Ambrose Bierce
Speak when you are angry, and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
                                                               -- Ambrose Bierce
Before success, we must be able to accept rejection;
 after success, we must be able to reject acceptance.
                                     -- Mardy Grothe
I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.
                                     -- Fanny Burney 1752
Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; 
 in fact ... the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.
                                                                  -- Erik Erikson
When our pleasures have exhausted us, we think we have exhausted pleasure. 
                                               -- Marquis de Vauvenargues
Lazy people are always looking for something to do.
                                               -- Marquis de Vauvenargues
The most absurd and reckless aspirations
 have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
                                             -- Marquis de Vauvenargues
The one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable. 
                                                        -- John F Kennedy
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly. 
                                        -- Voltaire
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.                      
                                                      -- Voltaire
Work is often the father of pleasure.
                                         -- Voltaire
No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
                                               -- Voltaire
Truth is the fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.
                                                    -- Voltaire
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, 
 but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble,
                                                                   -- Helen Keller
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
                                                  -- Helen Keller
Nothing right in my left brain, nothing left in my right brain.
                                         -- Katherine Robinson
We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.
                                       -- Katherine Robinson
Adolescence is a kind of slavery cleverly disguised as freedom.
                                        -- Genevieve Megginson
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
                                                            -- Bertrand Russell
Forty is the old age of youth, 
 fifty is the youth of old age.
                                    -- Victor Hugo
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad. 
                                    -- Victor Hugo
The malicious have a dark happiness.
                                    -- Victor Hugo
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
                                      -- Victor Hugo
Laughter is the sun that drives Winter from the human face.
                                            -- Victor Hugo
Toleration is the best religion.
                                 -- Victor Hugo
An invasion of armies can be resisted, 
 but not the invasion of ideas. 
 (often rendered as:
 'There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come)
                                                   -- Victor Hugo
In life it is difficult to say who do you the worst mischief,
 enemies with the worst intentions 
 or friends with the best.
                                          -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Men never forgive those in whom there is nothing to pardon.
                                      -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, 
 according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether
 it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.
                                                   -- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
To err is human,
 To blame someone else is politics.
                                     -- Hubert H Humphrey
Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law.
                                                     -- Hubert H Humphrey
The right to be heard does not automatically
 include the right to be taken seriously.
                                        -- Hubert H Humphrey
The impersonal hand of government can never replace
  the helping hand of a neighbour.
                                 -- Hubert H Humphrey
Man is the animal who loves.
                             -- Archibald MacLeish 
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience, 
 and that is not learning from experience.
                                         -- Archibald MacLeish
In youth we run into difficulties.
 In old age difficulties run into us. 
                                      -- Henry Wheeler Shaw
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
                                                 -- Archibald MacLeish
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, but not swallowed.
                                            -- Archibald MacLeish
Love is the history of a woman's life; it is an episode in man's.
                                            -- Germaine de Stael
Life is like a sewer, what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.  
                                                               -- Tom Lehrer
The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.
                                                         -- Khalil Gibran
Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent. 
                                              -- Antoine de Rivarol
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, 
 are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
                                                   -- Antoine de Rivarol
Nothing fails like success, when you rely on it too much.
                                     -- Arnold J Toynbee
It is paradoxical but profoundly true and important a principle of life 
 that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal
 itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.  
                                                  -- Arnold J Toynbee
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused
 by two things; first, an ideal, which takes the imagination by storm, 
 and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
                                                            -- Arnold J Toynbee
People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
                                              -- Abraham Lincoln
I'll tell you an easier way to remember: forget it once!
                                         -- Dick Stadler
When describing themselves, it is generally the things people fail to mention 
 which reflect their most important qualities.
                                                      -- Mimi Stadler
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer,
 but wish we didn't. 
                                            -- Erica Jong
Like sex in Victorian England, 
 the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret. 
                                            -- Ralph Nader
Be who you are and say what you feel, 
 because those who mind don't matter 
 and those who matter don't mind.
                                     -- Theodor Seuss Geisel
Creativity is a type of learning process 
 where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
                                             -- Arthur Koestler
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward,
                                                -- Arthur Koestler
Man may not get all they pay for in this world,
 but they certainly pay for all they get.
                                          -- Frederick Douglass
It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling
 into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government
 from falling into error.
                                                      -- Robert H Jackson
In the theatre: 
 a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies,
 a villain, one who believes that all ladies are women.
                                 -- George Jean Nathan
How delightful is the company of generous people who overlook trifles
 and keep their minds intrinsicly fixed on whatever is good and positive
 in the world about them.
                                                         -- Van Wyck Brooks
Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy,
 and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it.
 And, what is more, they find it everywhere.
                                            -- Van Wyck Brooks
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
                                                    -- Michelangelo 
The greater danger for most people is: 
 not setting our aim too high and falling short;
 but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. 
                                                        -- Michelangelo
Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.
                                               -- Michelangelo
I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
                                                           -- Michelangelo
Money sometimes makes fools of important persons,
 but it may also make important persons of fools.  
                                                  -- Walter Winchell
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way
 that leaves practically nothing unsaid. 
                                                  -- Walter Winchell
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage
                                                      -- Anais Nin
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what
 it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.  
                                                            -- Anais Nin
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.
                                                 -- James Russell Lowell
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.  
Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other
 people's thinking. 
Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.
 And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
                                                           -- Steve Jobs
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is.
 How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
                                            -- Millicent Fenwick
For a relationship to be fully functional,
 the participants must be slightly dysfunctional.
                                                 -- Dave Pugsley
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against its government.
                                                            -- Edward Abbey
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity,
 there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
                                                             -- Edward Abbey
It is not the writer's task to answer questions, but to question answers.
                                                         -- Edward Abbey
A phenomenon noticeable throughout history, regardless of place or period, 
 is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.
                                                      -- Barbara W Tuchman
Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes
 of the tyrant it has deposed.
                                  -- Barbara W Tuchman
What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian.
                                           -- Barbara W Tuchman
We have in fact two kinds of morality side by side;
 one which we preach but do not practice, 
 and another which we practice but seldom preach.
                                              -- Bertrand Russell
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life.
 I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy;
 I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
                                       -- Bertrand Russell
What hunger is in relation to food, 
 zest is in relation to life.
                             -- Bertrand Russell
The rules seem to be these:
 If you have written a successful novel, everyone invites you to write short stories.  
 If you have written some good short stories, everyone wants you to write a novel. 
 But nobody wants anything until you have already proved yourself by being published
 somewhere else.                                                   -- James Michener
We are never prepared for what we expect.
                                          -- James Michener
It is not your love that sustains a marriage, 
 but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.
                                      -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If you board the wrong train, 
 it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
                                         -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time,
 because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.
                                          -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The problem's not forgetting what I remember,
 it's remembering what I forget.
                                 -- Jim Clark
Early and undeserved success leads small people to failure in the same way that 
 early and undeserved failure leads great people to success.
                                                            -- Jim Clark
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts;
 but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. 
                                                        -- Sir Francis Bacon
If we do not maintain Justice,
 Justice will not maintain us.
                              -- Sir Francis Bacon
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. 
                                      -- Sir Francis Bacon
Age doesn't protect you from love.
 But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
                                         -- Jeanne Moreau
You don't get ulcers from what you eat.
  You get them from what's eating you.
                                     -- Vicki Baum
Indifference is the invisible giant of the world.  
                                               -- Ouida
There is no surer way to misread any document, than to read it literally.                           
                                                -- Billings Learned Hand
I always divide people into two groups. 
 Those who live by what they know to be a lie,
 and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.
                                            -- Christopher Hampton
What is needed is a realisation that power without love is reckless and abusive,
 and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
                                                    -- Martin Luther King
Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress;
 when I tire of one, I spend the night with the other.
                                         -- Anton Chekhov
Women deprived of the company of men pine,
 men deprived of the company of women become stupid.
                                       -- Anton Chekhov
When I am married, I want to be single.
 And when I am single, I want to be married.
                                           -- Cary Grant
You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
                                        -- Dolly Parton
Acting is all about honesty.
 If you can fake that, you've got it made.
                                        -- George Burns
Sex after ninety is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
 Even putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
                                        -- George Burns
There is always a right and a wrong way, 
 and the wrong way always seems the more reasonable.
                                         -- George Moore
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs
 and returns home to find it.
                                        -- George Moore
It is when we all play safe that we create a world of the utmost insecurity.
                                                        -- Dag Hammarskjold
The more we do, the more we can do;
 the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.
                                    -- Dag Hammarskjold
It is a source of consolation to look back upon those great misfortunes
 which never happened.
                                                 -- Arthur Schopenhauer
It is difficult to keep quiet if you have nothing to do.
                                   -- Arthur Schopenhauer
It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall
 the good time that is now no more; but that in good days we have only
 a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad.
                                                -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Life has a way of keeping things in balance.
 Just when someone great sees you as small,
 there's always someone small who sees you as great.
                                          -- Larry Chapman
Compromise - The willingness to rise below one's principles.
                                          -- Stephen Andrew
Love - When the heart loses its mind.
                                        -- Anita Turtletaub
Circle - The longest distance between one point.
                                        -- Keith R Herrmann
Comedian - A person who helps us cry by laughing.
                                        -- Fred Feaster
Memory - The presence of the past.
                                        -- John Koster
Skeptic - A person who is sure that nothing is certain.
                                     -- Sam Lehmann-Wilzig
Slim Chance - Slightly more hopeful than a fat chance.
                                   -- Ingrid Frances Stark
Unrequited Love - Hot pursuit with a chilling consequence.
                                       -- Chuck Jambotkar
Wake - A lively party for the dead.
                                   -- Tony Coco
Shun advice at any price,
 that's what I call good advice.
                                -- Piet Hein
Books, are like lobster shells,
 we surround ourselves with 'em,
 then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind,
 evidence of our earlier stage of development.
                                       -- Dorothy L Sayers
The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
                                                        -- Dorothy L Sayers
Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.
                                            -- Jefferson Davis
It is not miracles that generate faith, but faith that generates miracles.
                                                     -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Patience is also a form of action.
                                    -- Auguste Rodin
The salary of the chief executive of the large corporation is not a market reward
 for achievement.  It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by
 the individual to himself.
                                                        -- John Kenneth Galbraith
When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.
                               -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Meetings are indispensable, when you don't want to do anything.
                                     -- John Kenneth Galbraith
It is possible that people need to believe they are unmanaged
 if they are to be managed effectively.
                                     -- John Kenneth Galbraith
We should lay in a store of food, but never of pleasures;
 these should be gathered day by day.
                                     -- Ninon de Lenclos
It requires infinitely a greater genius to make love,
 than to make war.
                                  -- Ninon de Lenclos
Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.
                                     -- Ninon de Lenclos
The secret of a successful relationship is avoiding the unforgiveable 
 and forgiving the unavoidable.
                                           -- Dr Mardy Grothe
Personally, I think if a woman hasn't met the right man by the time
 she is twenty-four, she may be lucky.
                                                    -- Deborah Kerr
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
                                                     -- Louis D Brandeis
Every great mistake has a halfway moment,
 a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
                                             -- Pearl S Buck
It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes.
                                        -- Cyril Connolly
The greatest mistake you can make in life i
 to be continually fearing you will make one.
                                            -- Elbert Hubbard
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always
 another chance for you.
 What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
                                                  -- Mary Pickford
Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes;
 there's too much fraternising with the enemy.
                                             -- Henry Kissinger
May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond
 to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.
                                            -- Thomas Jefferson
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments,
 we become afraid as if their reason has left them.
                                                -- Willa Cather
Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair,
 but manifestations of strength and resolution.
                                                -- Kahill Gibran
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
                                            -- Dr Samuel Johnson
As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding,
 mistrust and hostility to evaporate.
                                   -- Albert Schweitzer
Men are like microwave ovens; they heat up immediately,
 but things start to boil over after about three minutes.
 Women are like conventional ovens; they take twenty minutes to heat up,
 but can go on cooking for hours.
                                             -- Mardy Grothe
Always remember that your life is your job, and not vice versa.
                                               -- Mardy Grothe
People in cars cause accidents, and accidents in cars cause people.
                                               -- Garrison Keillor
The length of your education is less important than its breadth,
 and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
                                          -- Marilyn vos Savant
You cannot antagonise and influence at the same time.
                                               -- John Knox
It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced
 by those we influence.
                                                           -- Eric Hoffer
Children are like wet cement.
 Whatever falls on them makes an impression.
                                             -- Haim Ginott
Happiness... is not a destination:
 It is a manner of travelling.
 Happiness is not an end in itself.
 It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.
                                            -- Haim Ginott
First they ignore you, 
 then they laugh at you,
 then they fight you, 
 then you win.
                               -- Gandhi
Knowledge is one thing, virtue is another.
                              -- Cardinal John Henry Newman
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end,
 but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.
                                      -- Cardinal John Henry Newman
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well
 that no one could find fault.
                                   -- Cardinal John Henry Newman
Many people have lost their way while searching for the truth;
 and just as many others have found the truth shortly after
 thinking they had lost their way.
                                                 -- Mardy Grothe
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak 
 becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
                                                    -- Thomas Carlyle
Obstacles cannot crush me.
 Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.  
 He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
                                            -- Leonardo da Vinci
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position
 that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome
 while trying to succeed.
                                                   -- Booker T Washington
What on earth would a man do with himself if something did not stand in his way?
                                                                   -- H G Wells
The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.
 The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
                                           -- Benjamin E Mays
It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled,
 but it is certainly a calamity not to dream.
                                           -- Benjamin E Mays
The circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the centre is set.
                                                       -- Benjamin E Mays
If from infancy you treat children as gods, 
 they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.
                                          -- PD James
What a child doesn't receive, he can seldom later give.
                                           -- PD James
You were born an original, so don't die a copy.
                                         -- Mardy Grothe
Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently.
                                                -- Henry Ford
You always pass failure on the way to success
                                          -- Mickey Rooney
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
                                            -- Anton Chekhov
The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.
                                               -- Anton Chekhov
Critics are like horseflies which hinder the horses in their ploughing of the soil.
                                                                  -- Anton Chekhov
A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs,
 like life itself.
                         -- May Sarton
Human relations just are not fixed in their orbits like the planets.
 They're more like galaxies, changing all the time, exploding into light for years, 
 then dying away.
                                                 -- May Sarton
The first time you buy a house, you think how pretty it is and sign the check.  
 The second time you look to see if the basement has termites.
 It's the same with men.
                                 -- Lupe Velez
America is the only country where the failure to promote yourself
 is widely considered arrogant.
                                                 -- Garry Trudeau
The meeting of two personalities is like the contract of two chemical substances; 
 if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
                                                       -- Carl Jung
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence
 is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
                                                   -- Carl Jung
The shoe that fits one person, pinches another; 
 there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
                                                   -- Carl Jung
A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.
                                                   -- James Beard
Do what is easy as if it were difficult,
 and what is difficult as if it were easy.
                                         -- Baltasar Gracian
Use human means as if there were no divine ones, 
 and divine means as if there were no human ones.
                                            -- Baltasar Gracian
My precept to all who build, 
 is that the owner should be an ornament to the house, 
 and not the house to the owner.
                                         -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
We are in bondage to the law,
 in order that we may be free.
                                         -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Too much liberty leads to both men and nations to slavery.
                                         -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
When you have to make a choice and don't make it, 
 that is in itself a choice.
                                   -- William James
There may be Peace without Joy, 
 and Joy without Peace, 
 but the two combined make happiness.
                                     --John Buchan
Plan your dive and dive your plan.
                                     -- Tom Pritchard
Many things are the exact reverse of earlier times.  
 Young men used to be questioned by the pop before they popped the question.  
 But they also used to get married first and have children later, 
 in contrast to the current arrangement.
                                                 -- Mardy Grothe
While victory is always preferred to defeat, 
 people learn far more from defeat than from victory.
                                               -- Mardy Grothe
Painting is easy when you don't know how, 
 but very difficult when you do.
                                    -- Edgar Degas
Is it hard for the reader to believe that suicides are sometimes committed 
 to forestall the committing of murder?  There is no doubt of it.  
 Nor is there any doubt that murder is sometimes committed to avert suicide.
                                                       -- Dr Karl Menninger
We can never truly understand people when we hate them, 
 and we can never truly hate people when we understand them.
                                            -- Mardy Grothe
I'd rather be flirting with the old farts 
 than farting with the old flirts.
                                          -- Suzanne Grothe
A first rate businessman is (saving some ghastly character flaw) always a success, 
 but a successful man is not necessarily first rate.
                                            -- Alistair Cooke
Can't you control your wife?  
 Or are you like me?
                             -- Robert F Kennedy
The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple:
 you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities,
 but never treat a triviality as it it were a disaster.
                                              -- Quentin Crisp
The young always have the same problem:
 how to rebel and conform at the same time,
 they have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
                                                           -- Quentin Crisp
The thing we're careful not to say is what we most may need to tell
                                       -- Georgia Kornbluth
The best thing about the battle between the sexes,
 is often the sex between the battles.
                                        -- Mardy Grothe
Linux isn't a product.  
 Nor is it just a development project.
 It's a species.
 It evolves over time in an adaptive way.
                                         -- Doc Searls
Kernel development is not about Moore's Law.  
 It's about natural selection, which is reactive, not proactive.  
 Every patch to the kernel is adaptive, responding to changes in the 
 environment as well as to internal imperatives toward general improvements 
 on what the species is and does.                             -- Doc Searls
If we do not abolish war on this earth,
 then surely one day, war will abolish us from the earth.
                                         -- Harry Truman
If there is a God, 
 the phrase that must disgust him is - holy war.
                                              -- Steve Allen
The purpose of having an open mind is the same as having an open mouth. 
 The object being eventually to close it on something solid.  
 But one should never close either mind or mouth until the general 
 circumstances of the moment make it reasonable to do so.
                                                    -- Steve Allen
A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks
 following a big schmuck dressed like a kid.
                                           -- Jack Benny
Modesty is my best quality.
                          -- Jack Benny
My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once 
 have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; 
 murder, yes, but divorce, never.
                                                   -- Jack Benny
In the case of good books, 
 the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, 
 but rather how many can get through to you.
                                           -- Mortimer J Adler
In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and logos. 
 The ethos is his moral character, the source of his ability to persuade.
 The pathos is his ability to touch feelings to move people emotionally.
 The logos is his ability to give solid reasons for an action,
 to move people intellectually.                      -- Mortimer J Adler
The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.
                                               -- Pablo Casals
Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, 
 and even the most foolish women are wise about men.
                                                -- Theodor Reik
The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.
                                                                -- Theodor Reik
The secret of having it all is not having it all.
                                               -- Mardy Grothe
While many people are bad managers 
 bad people never make good managers.
                                   -- Mardy Grothe
The murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
                                              -- Peter De Vries
Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
                                                           -- Baltasar Gracian
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
                              -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Give me a young man in whom there is something of the old, 
 and an old man with something of the young.
                                   -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
                                          -- Oscar Wilde
Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion,
 or it will control you.
                                  -- Horace
I am ready to meet my Maker.  
 Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
                                                        -- Winston Churchill
The bad news: we often find ourselves in trouble.  
 The good news: in trouble, we often find ourselves.
                                             -- Mardy Grothe
Change does not necessarily assure progress, 
 but progress implacable requires change.
                                   -- Henry Steele Commager
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism, 
 if our government is to function, it must have dissent.
                                   -- Henry Steele Commager
It is not enough to preach about family values, we must value families.
                                             -- Hillary Rodham Clinton
There may be wonder in money, but dear God, there is money in wonder.
                                                     -- Enid Bagnold
Positive.  Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
                                        -- Ambrose Bierce
Silence: One of the hardest arguments to refute.
                                        -- Josh Billings
Hero:  A man who is afraid to run away.
                                        -- English Proverb
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
                                        -- Jean Giraudoux
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
                                        -- Jean Giraudoux
The secret of success is sincerity.
 Once you can fake that you've got it made.
                                        -- Jean Giraudoux
An effective leader commands respect;
 an ineffective one only respects a command.
                                           -- Mardy Grothe
Cemetery: a place where dead people live.
                                           -- Mardy Grothe
Sailor: a person who is grounded by sea.
                                           -- Mardy Grothe
City Life: Millions of people being lonesome together.
                                      -- David Henry Thoreau
Habit: A shackle for the free.
                                -- Ambrose Bierce
Political freedom cannot exist in any land where religion controls the state, 
 and religious freedom cannot exist in any land where the state controls religion.
                                                                -- Samuel J Ervin
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's own ignorance.
                                               -- Confucius
There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches but the wrong comes 
 when the riches possess men.
                                                      -- Billy Graham
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him.
                                                    -- Bion
He is bound fast by his wealth. His money owns him rather than he owns it.
                                                            -- St Cyprian
If humility is the strength of the weak, then hubris is the weakness of the strong.
                                                                   -- Mardy Grothe
Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.
                                                -- Albert Schweitzer
If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, 
 then nine times out of ten it will.
                                    -- Paul Harvey
In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow.  
 Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, 
 or the bow tightens the string.
                                        -- Cyril Connolly
Bluntness is a clumsy attempt to make a point.
                                              -- Mardy Grothe
For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.
                                         -- Lily Tomlin
Success is getting what you want, happiness wanting what you get.
                                          -- Charles F Kettering
It's what we learn after we think we know it all, that counts.
                                            -- Frank McKinney
The conventional army loses if it does not win.
 The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.
                                        -- Henry Kissinger
The most important things to hear are the things we don't want to listen to.
                                                            -- Mardy Grothe
The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, 
 but that men will begin to think like computers.
                                                -- Sydney J Harris
A person who is going to commit an inhuman act invariably excuses himself by saying, 
 'I'm only human, after all'.
                                  -- Sydney J Harris
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
                                                -- H L Mencken
The worst government is the most moral.
                                        -- H L Mencken
A woman with eyes only for one person, 
 or with eyes always averted from him, 
 creates exactly the same impression.
                                      -- Jean de la Bruyere
When I'm good, I'm very good,
 but when I'm bad, I'm better.
                                   -- Mae West
The most virtuous woman always has something within her that is not quite chaste.
                                                             -- Honore de Balzac
Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.
                                                           -- Honore de Balzac
Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, 
 always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.
                                          -- Honore de Balzac
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
                                          -- Izaak Walton
You state that because you have little aptitude for math, you have little interest in it.
 That might be a mistake.
 It's just as likely - perhaps even more so, that the converse is the case: 
 Because you have little interest in math, you have little aptitude for it.
                                                     -- Marilyn vos Savant
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear 
 are those which never come.
                                     -- James Russell Lowell
The artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can attain it in nothing.
                                                                 -- Eugene Delacroix
One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it.
                                                  -- Eugene Delacroix
Experience has two things to teach:
 the first is that we must correct a  great deal; 
 the second, that we must not correct too much.
                                        -- Eugene Delacroix
INDISPENSABLE: Some time when you're feeling important, some time when your ego's in bloom 
 Some time when you take it for granted you're the best qualified in the room 
 Some time when you feel that you're going would leave an unfillable hole 
 Just follow this simple instruction And see how it humbles your soul ....
 Take a bucket and fill it with water Put your hand in it up to your wrist
 Pull it out and the hole that's remaining is a measure of how you'll be missed
 You may splash all you like when you enter You can stir up the water galore
 But stop and you will find in a minute that it looks quite the same as before
 The moral of this quaint example is do just the best you can Be proud of yourself 
 but remember - There's no indispensable man.                -- Gundagai Historical Museum
Man can be destroyed but not defeated, Man can be defeated but not destroyed.
                                                         -- Ernest Hemingway  
Wars of nations are fought to change maps
 But wars on poverty are fought to map changes.
                                              -- Muhammad Ali
I want to die young at a ripe old age.
                                      -- Ashley Montagu
Without love, intelligence is dangerous
 without intelligence, love is not enough.
                                      -- Ashley Montagu
Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
                                              -- Lillian Hellman
We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.
                                             -- Mardy Grothe
I long to accomplish a great task, 
 but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
                                                                   -- Helen Keller
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
                                            -- Knute Rockne
I was never ruined but twice:
 once when I lost a law suit, 
 and once when I won one.
                                            -- Voltaire
The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him 
 and to fly from all that pursue him.
                                              -- Voltaire
Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.
                                            -- Jefferson Davis
A woman's head is always influenced by heart; 
 but a man's heart by his head.
                            -- Lady Marguerite Blessington
There are no persons capable of stooping so low
 as those who desire to rise in the world.
                              -- Lady Marguerite Blessington
If your religion does not change you, then you should change your religion.
                                                         -- Elbert Hubbard
I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have 
 than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
                                         -- Elbert Hubbard
It is easier to think of the world without a creator 
 than of a creator loaded with all of the contradictions of the world.
                                                -- Simone de Beauvoir
If you are lonely while you're alone, you are in bad company.
                                         -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Life begins on the other side of despair.
                                       -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Where there is too much, something is missing.
                                             -- Leo Rosten
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
                                                            -- Leo Rosten
Work matters, but curiosity matters more.  
 Nobody works harder at learning than a curious kid.
 And nothing works harder to disable a kid's curiosity 
 than the narcotic we call television.
                                          -- Tom Friedman
The obscure we always see sooner or later; 
 the obvious always seems to take a little longer.
                                       -- Edward R Murrow
Love is moral even without legal marriage is immoral without love.
                                              -- Ellen Key
Often, when children can look you in the eye, 
 you find that you no longer see eye to eye with them.
                                              -- Michael Shoff
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
                                         -- Frank Lloyd Wright
We create our buildings and then they create us.  
 Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities
 and then they construct us.
                                            -- Frank Lloyd Wright
When we're young, everything is possible; 
 when we're old, possibilities are everything.
                                            -- Mardy Grothe
Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.
                                              -- Lord Byron
Men are the sport of circumstances; when the circumstances seem the sport of men.
                                                                   -- Lord Byron
He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
                                            -- Benjamin Franklin
Drive thy business, or it will drive thee.
                                            -- Benjamin Franklin
Not everything that counts can be counted; 
 and not everything that can be counted counts.
                                              -- Albert Einstein
To punish me for my contempt of authority, 
 Fate has made me an authority myself.
                                          -- Albert Einstein
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
                                          -- Albert Einstein
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; 
 the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
                                             -- Mark Twain
The man who gets on best with women is the one who knows best
 how to get on without them.
                                        -- Charles Baudelaire
Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity
 It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, 
 and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
                                                     -- Martin Luther King
Less is more.
                   -- Ludwig Mies Vande Rohe
Why are women so much more interesting to men, than men are to women.
                                                   -- Virginia Woolf
There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us,
 and not we, them.
                                          -- Virginia Woolf
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
                                          -- Virginia Woolf
The only thing more predictable than the certainty of ignorance
 is the ignorance of certainty.
                                            -- Mardy Grothe
In Europe men and women have intercourse because they love each other. 
 In the South Seas they love each other because they have had intercourse.
 Who is right?
                                          -- Paul Gauguin
A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation.
 A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.
                                                        -- Georges Pompidou
It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy 
 than to get a cowboy to be an actor.
                                            -- John Ford
We cannot always build the future for our youth, 
 but we can build our youth for the future.
                                        -- Franklin D Roosevelt
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's printed on.
                                              -- Samuel Goldwyn
Charm is a woman's strength
 just as strength is a man's charm.
                                       -- Havelock Ellis
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and  democracy.
 But that could change.
                                               -- Dan Quayle
Adlai Stevenson when running for USA presidency in 1952 -
 "You have the support of all thinking Americans", to which he replied:-
 Madam, that is not enough I'm going to need a majority.

Then you should say what you mean The March Hare went on. I do, Alice hastily replied;
 At least, at least I mean what I say - that's the same thing, you know. 
 Not the same thing a bit! said the Hatter.  Why, you might just as well say that 
 'I see what I eat' is the same thing as'I eat what I see'
                                                  -- Lewis Carrol - Alice's Adventure
Being too strong is a sign of weakness.
                                       -- Mardy Grothe
In addition to putting your knowledge into action, 
 don't forget to put a little action into your knowledge.
                                              -- Mardy Grothe
Motherhood:  the days are long, the years are short.
                                             -- Susan Mitchell
When a man listens to a woman, 
 she takes pleasures in his interest;
 and if he continues to play his cards right, 
 she might even take interest in his pleasure.
                                              -- Mardy Grothe
When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment,
 or the moment defines you.
                                   -- Kevin Costner
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery
 of a man in pursuit of happiness.
                                      -- George Noel Gordon (Lord Byron)
Never make the mistake of confusing the things of importance
 with the importance of things.
                                             -- Mardy Grothe
At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness.
                                                                 -- Erica Jong
Music and silence combine strongly 
 because music is done with silence and silence is full of music.
                                               -- Marcel Marceau
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that
 the characters are purely imaginary.
                                      -- Franklin Pearce Adams
Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women
 who make advances to them.
                                                       -- Walter Bagehot
Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.
                                                             -- Rick Warren
I am not rich. I am a poor man with money which is not the same thing.
                                            -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, 
 they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
                                            -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
People who want the most approval get the least 
 and people who need approval the least get the most.
                                             -- Dr Wayne Dyer
It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one 
 than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
                                         -- Whitney Young
BLAMESTORMING
 Sitting around in a group discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, 
 and who was responsible.
SEAGULL MANAGER
 A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, 
 craps on everything and then leaves.
ASSMOSIS
 The process by which people seem to absorb success and advancement
 by sucking up to the boss rather than working hard.
SALMON DAY
 The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die.
CUBE FARM
 An office filled with cubicles.
PRAIRIE DOGGING
 When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm and people's heads
 pop up over the walls to see what's going on.
 (This also applies to applause from a promotion because there may be cake involved)
MOUSE POTATO
 The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.
SITCOMS
 Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What Yuppies turn into when they 
 have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids
 or start a "home business".
STRESS PUPPY
 A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.
POLITICS
 The circuit board that conducts power.
 It is paramount that the workings of this circuit board remain visible.
                                                      -- David Mitchell
POWER
 Can be seized, lost, kept for a while, channelled, but not destroyed.
                                                    -- David Mitchell
THE FIRST LAW OF SURVIVAL
 The weak are meat the strong do eat.
                                      -- David Mitchell
THE SECOND LAW OF SURVIVAL
 There isn't a second law.
                            -- David Mitchell
FORGIVENESS
 Isn't only about benefiting the offender.  
 An inability to forgive can kill you. 
                                       -- David Mitchell
IMAGINATION
 It's a metaphor generator that makes unobvious connections.
                                          -- David Mitchell
INSPIRATION
 A connection so unobvious you don't understand how you made it.
                                              -- David Mitchell
HUMOUR
 A form of wisdom.
 Not always funny.
                         -- David Mitchell
DEATH AND LOSS
 Haven't kneed me in the groin yet, but they will, they will.
                                           -- David Mitchell
WORK, SEXUALITY, AGEING & MONEY
 Are things you need to have an evolving, lifelong relationship with, 
 ignoring or getting these relationships wrong are sources of unhappiness. 
                                                        -- David Mitchell
LOVE
 The best reason for being alive.
                                        -- David Mitchell
HAPPINESS
 Cannot be commanded to appear, but you can keep the window open
 so it can fly in of its own accord.
 If you do, it will.                           -- David Mitchell
To have enough is good luck, 
 to have more than enough is harmful.
 This is true of all things, but especially of money.
                                          -- Chuang-Tzu
Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.
                                         -- Ellen Glasgow
It is not good to have too much liberty.
 It is not good to have all one wants.
                                         -- Blaise Pascal
Too much humility is pride.
                               -- Proverb (German)
I hold this to be the rule of life:
 too much of anything is bad.
                                    -- Terence
The belief in the possibility of a short, decisive war appears to be one of
 the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.
                                                             -- Robert Lynd
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
                                                             -- Robert Lynd
I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary 
 and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.
                                             -- Robert Lynd
The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, 
 the greatest convenience among nuisances.
                                           -- Robert Lynd
All change is not growth; as all movement is not forward. 
                                        -- Ellen Glasgow
It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.  
                                            --  Ellen Glasgow
There are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, 
 even what one had hoped for.
                                     -- Ellen Glasgow
A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial
 independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away. 
                                                           -- Ellen Glasgow
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.  
 They have their exits and entrances, and one man in his time plays many parts.  
 From "As You Like It"
                                          -- Shakespeare
This is one of the great paradoxes of parenting: 
 while we can't do enough for our children, we shouldn't do too much either.
                                                              -- John Evans
Excessive wealth is a great problem masquerading as a great good.
                                                 -- Mardy Grothe
The heart is forever making the head its fool.
                            -- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
                                                 -- Mignon McLaughlin
If any part of your uncertainty is a conflict between your heart and your mind,
 follow your mind. 
                                    -- Ayn Rand
I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, 
 and that is softness of head. 
                                   -- Theodore Roosevelt
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
                                                 -- Arnold J Toynbee
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: 
 first, an ideal, which takes the imagination by storm, 
 and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
                                                            -- Arnold J Toynbee
We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective
 control over our own destinies.  I am not a determinist.  But I also believe that
 the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series.  More often than not,
 it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.                             
                                                                 -- Arnold J Toynbee
Resentment is a communicable disease and should be quarantined.
                                              -- Cynthia Ozick
To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.  
                                           -- Cynthia Ozick
There are three kinds of lies: 
 lies, damned lies, and statistics.
                      -- (first quoted in Mark Twain's autobiography)
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. 
                                        -- Benjamin Disraeli
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
                                                           -- Benjamin Disraeli
No government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.
                                            -- Benjamin Disraeli
The best decisions are made when the head is influenced by the heart, 
 and the heart by the head. 
                                          -- Mardy Grothe
He who conceals a useful truth is equally guilty with the propagator
 of an injurious falsehood.
                                                  -- Saint Augustine
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth.
                                               -- Charles Caleb Colton
No one is ever warmed by wool pulled over his eyes. 
                                            -- Marcelene Cox
Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting of another in an untruth.
 It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.  
                                                       -- William Hazlitt
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know
 because they have never deceived us.  
                                -- Dr Samuel Johnson
Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.
                                               -- Sir Walter Scott
People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception 
                                   -- Charles Dudley Warner
When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
                                               -- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
If you cannot find peace in yourself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere.
                                             -- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you'.  
 Mature love says: 'I need you because I love you'.
                                             -- Erich Fromm
Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness.  
 Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness.
                                             -- Erich Fromm
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
                                       -- Phyllis McGinley
Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.
                                                               -- Phyllic McGinley
For most men, life is a search for the proper manila folder
 in which to get themselves filed. 
                                         -- Clifton Fadiman
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.  
                                   -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
                                                               -- Danny Kaye
Life is like a ten speed bicycle, 
 Most of us have gears we never use.
                                     -- Charles M Schulz
Life is like a play, it's not the length,
 but the excellence of the acting that matters. 
                                               -- Seneca
Life is a lit like a marathon.  If you can finish a marathon, 
 you can do anything you want.
                               -- Oprah Winfrey
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears. 
                                          -- Arthur Koestler
Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil 
 are located in the same individual. 
                                          -- Arthur Koestler
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterward.
                                          -- Arthur Koestler
Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.  
                                          -- Arthur Koestler
If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, 
 he surely meant us to stick it out. 
                                          -- Arthur Koestler
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; 
 but you must approach each man by the right door.
                                          -- Henry Ward Beecher
I don't want any yes-men around me.  
 I want everybody to tell me the truth, 
 even if it costs them their jobs.
                                    -- Samuel Goldwyn
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
                                         -- Aldous Huxley
Tell your boss the truth, and the truth shall set you free. 
                                         -- Popular saying
If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup. 
                                         -- Proverb (Turkish)
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth: 
 anonymously and posthumously.
                                   -- Thomas Sowell
In Europe men and women have intercourse because they love each other.  
 In the South Seas they love each other because they have had intercourse. 
  Who is right?
                                           -- Paul Gauguin
Take care not to step on the foot of a learned idiot.  
 His bite is incurable.
                                -- Paul Gauguin
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.  
                                        -- Moliere
To know thyself is the beginning of all wisdom.  
                                             -- Aristotle
Know thyself, said the old philosopher,
 improve thyself, said the new.
                                 -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Make it thy business to know thyself, 
 which is the most difficult lesson in the world.  
                                      -- Miguel de Cervantes
Self-knowledge is the beginning of  self-improvement.
                                      -- Baltasar Gracian
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves,
 it is because self-knowledge is painful 
 and we prefer the pleasure of illusion.
                                        -- Aldous Huxley
When one is a stranger to oneself, 
 then one is estranged from others too.
                                   -- Ann Morrow Lindbergh
It is a fault to wish to be understood 
 before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves. 
                                      -- Simone Weil
A manager is an assistant to his men.
                                       -- Thomas J Watson
Whenever an individual or business decides that success has been attained, 
 progress stops.  
                                       -- Thomas J Watson
Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others 
 as what he does from day to day to lead himself.
                                             -- Thomas J Watson
Would you like me to give you a formula for success?  
 It's quite simple, really.
 Double your rate of failure.
                                 -- Thomas J Watson
Believe those who are seeking the truth.
 Doubt those who find it.   
                                -- Andre Gide
It is better to be hated for what you are
 than to be loved for something you are not.
                                      -- Andre Gide
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight 
 of the shore for a very long time.
                                            -- Andre Gide
The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
                               -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You can never get rid of what is part of you, even if you throw it away.
                                          -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To know thyself is the easiest thing to say and the hardest thing to do.
                                                        -- Mardy Grothe
Many promising reconciliations have broken down because, 
 while both parties came prepared to forgive, 
 neither party came prepared to be forgiven.
                                     -- Charles Williams
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.  
                                       -- Norman Cousins
While we are free to choose our actions, 
 we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions
                                        -- Stephen R Covey
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; 
 there are only consequences.
                                    -- Robert G Ingersoll
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
                                      -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Worrying is like praying for something you don't want to happen.
                                                 -- Alan Mynall
In all human affairs, the wisest course is to be passionate about the role of reason 
 and reasonable about the role of passion
                                                  -- Mardy Grothe
"As a matter of fact" is an expression that precedes many an expression that isn't.
"But officer, I was only trying to gain enough speed
 so I could coast to the nearest gas station."
"I don't think they could put him in a mental hospital. 
 On the other hand, if he were already in, I don't think they'd let him out."
"Lord, please let me find a one-armed economist so we won't 
 always hear 'On the other hand...'" 
                                          -- Edgar R. Fiedler
"The student in question is performing minimally for his peer group
 and is emerging an under-achiever."
$100 placed at 7 percent interest compounded quarterly for 200 years
 will increase to more than $100,000,000 by which time it will be worth nothing.  
                                                                -- Lazarus Long
'Tis better that a man's own works, than that another man's words should praise him. 
                                                                      -- L'Estrange
'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, 
 And robes the mountain in its azure hue.                                    
                                                 -- Campbell
'Tis not the fairest form that holds The mildest, purest soul within;
 'Tis not the richest plant that holds The sweetest fragrance in.
                                                -- Dawes
'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.
                                                -- Shakespeare
'Tis strange the miser should his cares employ 
 To gain the riches he can ne'er enjoy.                               
                                             -- Alexander Pope
(a) Completion of any task within the allocated time and budget does not bring 
 credit upon the performing personnel, it merely proves the task was easier 
 than expected; (b) failure to complete any task within the allocated time and 
 budget proves the task was more difficult than expected and requires promotion 
 for those in charge.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection
 does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. 
Cost consciousness and sophisticated design are basically incompatible.
                                   -- Richard F. Moore
The less management demands of engineers and scientists, 
 the greater their productivity.                               
                                   -- Richard F. Moore
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7:30, Channel 5: The Bionic Dog (Action/Adventure) 
 The Bionic Dog gets a hormonal short-circuit and violates 
 the Mann Act with an interstate Greyhound bus.
There is no need to kneel. 
 A small bow from the waist will do! 
                                          -- P.G.S.
A "critic" is a person who creates nothing and thereby 
 feels qualified to judge the work of creative people. 
 There is logic in this; he is unbiased
 he hates all creative people equally.
                                                -- Lazarus Long
A Smith and Wesson beats four aces.
A ball hitting a tree shall be deemed not to have hit the tree. 
 Hitting a tree is simply bad luck and has no place in a scientific game. 
 The player should estimate the distance the ball would have traveled if 
 it had not hit the tree and play the ball from there, preferably atop 
 nice firm tuft of grass.                              -- Donald A. Metz
A ball sliced or hooked into the rough shall be lifted and placed in the fairway at
 a point equal to the distance it carried or rolled into the rough. Such veering 
 right or left frequently results from friction between the face of the club and the 
 cover of the ball and the player should not be penalized for the erratic behavior 
 of the ball resulting from such uncontrollable physical phenomenan -- Donald A. Metz
A bathroom hook will be loaded to capacity immediately upon becoming available. 
 This also applies to freeways, closets, playgrounds, downtown hotels, taxis,parking lots, 
 bookcases, wallets, purses, pockets, pipe racks, basement shelves, and so on. 
 The list is endless.                                   -- John Joyce
A bird in the hand is safer than two overhead.
A camel looks like a horse that was planned by a committee.
                                                -- Vogue Magazine
A carelessly planned project takes three times longer to complete than expected; 
 a carefully planned project will take only twice as long.
A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often.
A clean limerick is a contradiction in terms.
A college education shows a man how little other people know.
                                                -- Haliburton
A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain.
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.   
                                                                  -- Elbert Hubbard
A company is known by the people it keeps.
A compromise is the art of dividing the cake in such a way that each one thinks 
 he is getting the biggest piece.
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
                                                -- Marvin Kitman
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.                                       
                                          -- H. L. Mencken
A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
                                   -- Edgar A. Shoaff
A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together.
                                                -- James H. Boren
A fake fortune teller can be tolerated,
 but an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. 
Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved
                                           -- Lazarus Long
A fool, indeed, has great need of a title, 
 It teaches men to call him count and duke, 
 And to forget his proper name of fool.
                                                -- Crowne
A foot is a device for finding furniture in the dark.
A free people always has the right to dismiss its rulers
 whom it regards as its servants, at any time.                
                                           -- Harry V. Jaffa
A friend of mine stopped smoking, drinking, overeating, and chasing women
 all at the same time. 
 It was a lovely funeral.
A good leader inspires others with confidence in him; 
 a great leader inspires them with confidence in themselves.
A good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nickname lasts forever.                                       
                                                                 -- Zimmerman
A great fortune is a great slavery.                -- Seneca
A great many people think they are thinking
 when they are merely re-arranging their prejudices.
A guy has to get fresh once in a while so the girl doesn't lose her confidence.
A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns,
 a tutor of nations. 
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.              
                                                 -- Napoleon Bonaparte
A king's castle is his home.
A lie in time saves nine.
A light heart lives long.               
                             -- Shakespeare
A light supper, a good night's sleep and a fine morning have often made a hero
 out of the same man, who, by indigestion, a restless night and a rainy morning
 would have proved a coward.       
                                                                -- Chesterfield
A little help at the right time is better than a lot of help at the wrong time.                                   
                                                                      -- Tevye
A little ignorance can go a long way.         -- Solomon Short
A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never.
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off
 more than he can chew.                        
                                                     -- Herb Caen
A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, 
 but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.  
                                                                       -- Haliburton
A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.                                     
                                                             -- Jean Paul Richter
A man said to the universe, "Sir, I exist." 
 "However," replied the universe, 
 "the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation." 
                                  -- Stephen Crane
A man should be greater than some of his parts.
A man who can't mind his own business is not to be trusted with the king's.                                       
                                                                -- Saville
A man who studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
                                      -- Francis Bacon
A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never sure.
A man without religion is like a fish without a bicycle.
A man's legs must be long enough to reach the ground.
                                  -- Abraham Lincoln
A meeting is a place where people get together to talk about what they should be doing.
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.                                
                           -- Dean Acheson
A motion to adjourn is always in order.
A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows the corners.
A nickname is the heaviest stone the devil can throw at a man.
A pat on the back is only a few centimeters from a kick in the pants.
A pedestrian hit me and went under my car.
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
                                  -- George Bernard Shaw
A person who can't lead and won't follow makes a dandy roadblock.
A phenomenon known to anyone who has ever lit fires: 
 You can throw a burnt match out the window of your car and start a forest fire 
 while you can use two boxes of matches and a whole edition of the Sunday paper 
 without being able to start a fire under the dry logs in your fireplace.
A picture is a poem without words.           -- Horace
A piece of electronic equipment is housed in a beautifully designed cabinet, 
 and at the side or on top is a little box containing the components which the designer 
 forgot to make room for.
                                             -- Denys Parsons
A pig ate his fill of acorns under an oak tree and then started to root around the tree. 
 A crow remarked, "You should not do this. If you lay bare the roots,
 the tree will wither and die." 
 "Let it die," said the pig. "Who cares so long as there are acorns?"
A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.
A plucked goose doesn't lay golden eggs.
A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. 
 For maximum comprehension, do not start listening until the first clause is concluded. Begin instead 
 at the word "but" which begins the second, or active, clause. This is the way to tell a liberal from a 
 conservative, before they tell you. Thus: "I have always believed in a strong national defense, 
 second to none but ... " (a liberal, about to propose a $20 billion defense cut). -- Frank Mankiewicz
A pretty woman is a welcome guest.                -- Byron
A professor's enthusiasm for teaching the introductory course 
 varies inversely with the likelihood of his having to do it.
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
A putt that stops close enough to the cup to inspire such comments as
 "you could blow it in" may be blown in. This rule does not apply if the ball is more
 than three inches from the hole, because no one wants to make a travesty of the game.                       
                                                                    -- Donald A. Metz
A quick response is worth a thousand logical responses.
                                                     -- Merle P. Martin
A real friend is a person who, when you've made a fool of yourself, lets you forget it.
A realist lets circumstances decide which end of the telescope to look through.
A recession is when my neighbor loses his job. 
 A depression is when I lose my job. 
 A panic is when my wife loses her job.
                                        -- Edgar R. Fiedler
A record of data is useful, it indicates that you've been working.
A reform is a correction of abuses; 
 a revolution is a transfer of power.
A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God.
A river flowing through one of our large Eastern cities is so polluted,
 it is considered a fire hazard!
A seminar on Time Travel will be held two weeks ago.
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the
 commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those that are worth committing.
A shortcut is the longest distance between two points.
                                 -- Professor Charles P. Issawi
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
                                            -- Joseph Stalin
A successful person is one who went ahead and did the thing 
 the rest of us never quite got around to.
A successful symposium depends on the ratio of meeting to eating.
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, 
 for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself -- Jessamyn West
 (Irony is when you buy a suit with two pair of pants, and then burn a hole 
 in the coat.)
A true friend will see you through when others see 
 that you are through.
A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a Unicorn.
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper its printed on.
                                             -- Sam Goldwyn
A wedding ring is like a tourniquet, it cuts off your circulation.
A winner makes commitments; a loser makes promises.
A winner says "Lets find out."; a loser says, "Nobody knows."
A winner works harder than a loser and has more time; 
 A loser is always too busy to do what is necessary.
A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, 
 a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
A woman, like a good piece of music, should have a solid end
                                               -- F. Shubert
A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. 
 This may be the purpose of the universe.               
                                         -- Lazarus Long
A. Running a project in this office is like mating elephants
 it takes a great deal of time and effort to get on top of things; 
 B. The whole affair is always accompanied by a great deal of 
 noise and confusion, the culmination of which is heralded by 
 loud trumpeting; C. After which, nothing comes of the effort for two years.
ACHTUNG: Das machine is nicht fur gefingerpoken und mittengrabben. 
 Ist easy schnappen der springenwerk, blowenfusen und corkenpoppen 
 mit spitzensparken. Ist nicht fur gewerken by das dummkopfen. Das
 rubbernecken sightseeren keepen hands in das pockets. Relaxen 
 und vatch das blinkenlights!!!
ADVANCED DESIGN: copy writer doesn't understand it
ALL NEW: Parts not interchangeable with previous design
ARTIFACT: Something only an art major would know.
ARTIFACT: The only true fact in an experiment.
Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, 
 as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.
                                 -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Absence of occupation is not rest 
 A mind quite vacant is a mind distress'd.                                      
                                            -- Cowper
Absolute freedom is being able to do what you please 
 without considering anyone except the except the wife and kids, 
 the company and the boss, neighbors and friends, the police 
 and government, the doctor and the church.
Administration maintains the status quo.        -- Thomas L. Martin
Advice from an old carpenter: Measure twice and saw once.
After adding two weeks to the schedule for unexpected delays, 
 add two more for the unexpected, unexpected delays.
After all is said and done, a hell of a lot more is said than done.
After large expenditures of federal, state, and county funds; 
 after much confusion generated by detours and road blocks; after greatly 
 annoying the surrounding population with noise, dust, and fumes, the 
 previously existing traffic jam is relocated by one half-mile.
                                                            -- Alan Deitz
Against stupidity, even the gods themselves contend in vain
                                            -- Isaac Azimov
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
All committee reports conclude that "it is not prudent to 
 change the policy [or procedure, or organization, or whatever] 
 at this time." 
                                     -- Thomas L. Martin
All general statements are false.         -- R. H. Grenier
All government programs have three things in common: 
 a beginning, a muddle, and no end.
All hierarchies contain administrators and managers,
 and they tend to appear at alternating levels in the hierarchy.        
                                            -- Thomas L. Martin
All men are born naked.                -- Carlos Eduardo Novaes
All policy interventions in social problems produce the 
 intended effect. If the research is carried out by those 
 implementing the policy or their friends.                                
                                           -- James Q. Wilson
All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the 
 part of every organism to live beyond its income.         
                                             -- Samuel Butler
All snakes who wish to remain in Ireland will please raise 
 their right hands.                                               
                                             -- Saint Patrick
All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average person 
 are spent by the government in less than a second.               
                                               -- Jim Fiebig
All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal 
 or fattening.
                                        -- Alexander Woollcott
All they [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for taxes spent upon 
 them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to 
 a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, 
 stimulating and ennobling.
                                                           -- H. L. Mencken
All those who are opposed to the plan I am about to propose will 
 reply by saying "I resign."
All you need to grow fine vigorous grass 
 is a crack in your sidewalk.
Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.
                                                -- Agnes Allen
Always listen to experts. 
 They'll tell you what can't be done, and why.
 Then do it.                                       
                              -- Lazarus Long
Always tell her she is beautiful, especially if she is not.
Always tell him he is handsome, especially if he is not.
Always verify your witchcraft.
An apology for the devil: 
 It must be remembered that we have heard only one side 
 of the case. 
 God has written all the books.
An economist is a man who would marry Farrah Fawcett for her money.
                                    -- Edgar R. Fiedler
An elephant: a mouse built to government specifications.
An exception TESTS a rule; it NEVER proves it.        
                                    -- Edmund C. Berkeley
An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while 
 sweeping on to the grand fallacy.                               
                                   -- Gerald Weinberg
An expert is someone who can take something you already knew 
 and make it sound confusing.
An invisible car came out of nowhere, 
 struck my vehicle and vanished.
An old car that served you so well will continue to serve you 
 until you have just put four new tires under it and then will fall apart.
                                                          -- Erma Bombeck
An optimist is a person who goes to the window every morning 
 and says, "Good morning, God!" 
 The pessimist goes to the window every morning and says, 
 "Good god, morning!"
An optimist proclaims that this is the best of all possible worlds, 
 and a pessimist fears that it is true.
And he gave it as his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn
 or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew 
 before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to
 his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.                                      
                                                         -- Jonathon Swift
Andrew's Canoeing Postulate: 
 No matter which direction you start, 
 it's always against the wind coming back.
Energy-State: Any state of condition of the Universe, or any portion of it, 
 which requires the expenditure of human effort or ingenuity to bring it into
 line with human desires, needs, or pleasures.
                                                             -- Dr. John Gall
Anthony's Law of Force: Don't force it. Get a larger hammer.
Anthony's Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, 
 will roll into the least accessible corner of the workshop. 
 Corollary: On the way to the corner, any dropped tool will 
 first always strike your toes. 
Any bus that can be the wrong bus will be the wrong bus. 
 All others are out of service or full.                        
                                        -- John Corcoran
Any discovery is more likely to be exploited by the wicked 
 than applied by the virtuous.
                               -- Marion J. Levy, Jr.
Any given program will expand to fill all available memory.
Any inanimate object, regardless of its composition or configuration, 
 may be expected to perform at any time in a totally unexpected manner 
 for reasons that are either totally obscure or completely mysterious.
                                                    -- Dr. Fyodor Flap
Any jackass can kick down a barn, 
 but it takes a good carpenter to build one.                      
                                            -- Sam Rayburn
Any large system is going to be operating most of the time 
 in failure mode.                                            
                       -- Dr. John Gall
Any man can prove he has good judgement by saying you have.
Any man that can write, may answer a letter.       
                                            -- Shakespeare
Any man who hates dogs and loves whiskey can't be all bad.
                                           -- W. C. Fields
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
Any one can be great with money. 
 With money, greatness is not a talent but an obligation. 
 The trick is to be great without money.
                                         -- Italo Bombolini
Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty 
 until proved innocent.
                             -- Lazarus Long
Any race that doesn't use all its potential 
 will always stop short of its possibilities.                   
                                            -- Jose Torres
Any stone in your boot always migrates against the pressure 
 gradient to exactly the point of most pressure.               
                                              -- Milt Barber
Any theory can be made to fit any facts by means of 
 appropriate additional assumptions.                  
                                   -- Robert E. Schenk
Any time you wish to demonstrate something, 
 the number of faults is proportional to the number of viewers.
Any vacuum cleaner would sooner take the nap off a rug 
 than remove white threads from a dark rug.
Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry.
                                             -- George Ade
Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. 
 No citizen has a moral obligation to assist in maintaining 
 the government.
Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend 
 two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be 
 trusted with the office.                                       
                           -- David Broder
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work 
 he is supposed to be doing at the moment.                
                                         -- Robert Benchley
Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world 
 in jeopardy.
Anyone who uses the phrase "easy as taking candy from a baby" 
 has never tried taking candy from a baby.                
                                            -- Robin Hood
Anything free is worth what you pay for it.
Anything hit with a big enough hammer will fall apart.
                                 -- Robert A. Jackson
Anything you can do I can do better; 
 anything I can do YOU can do better; 
 anything I can do I can do better; 
 anything IBM does will cost more money.
Applause is the spur of noble minds, 
 the end and aim of weak ones.
                                   -- Colton
Are you a man or a mouse? Come on, squeak up!
Army Law: If it moves, salute it; if it doesn't move, 
 pick it up; and if you can't pick it up, paint it.
As I approached the intersection a stop sign suddenly appeared 
 in a place where no stop sign has ever appeared before. 
 I was unable to stop in time to avoid the accident.
As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion 
 is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram 
 themselves in vain with intellectual food.                              
                                            -- Dr. I. Watts
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal 
 applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, 
 the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the 
 most exalted characters.
                                          -- Edward Gibbon
As the dimensions of the tree are not always regulated by 
 the size of the seed, so the consequences of things are not 
 always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events 
 that have produced them.
                                                -- Colton
Ask five economists and you'll get five different explanations 
 (six if one went to Harvard).                                
                                -- Edgar R. Fiedler
At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when 
 a man hits his thumb with a hammer.                            
                                     -- Marshall Lumsden
At some point, every faculty would certainly lynch its dean
 if it could only agree on a date.
At some time in the life cycle of virtually every organization, 
 its ability to succeed in spite of itself runs out.
                                           -- Richard H. Brien
Atoms are made up of electrons and protons (protons are also nothing).
 Fifty billion electrons placed side by side in a straight line would stretch 
 across the period at the end of this sentence. Protons are heavier but take 
 up less space. Such an idea is incapable of being absorbed by the human mind.
                                            -- John Lardner and Thomas Sugrue
Attention to detail is the watchword for gleaning information 
 from an unsuspecting witness.                               
                                -- Inspector Cleuseau
Auditors always reject a newsman's expense account with a 
 bottom line divisible by 5 or 10.
Auditors are the people who go in after the war is lost and 
 bayonet the wounded.
Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates. 
 The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud and vain; 
 By this the fool commands the wise The noble with the base complies. 
 The sot assumes the rule of wit, And cowards make the base submit.
                                                               -- Butler
Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry 
 (nota bene:
 Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!)
                                     -- Lazarus Long
BREAKTHROUGH: we finally figured out a way to sell it.
Back to a simpler time of skins and stones! 
 When things go wrong--the answers in the stars Or evil spells 
 or reading chicken bones Or sacrifices to all gods but Mars.             
                                               -- Jack Kirwan
Bad law is more likely to be supplemented than repealed.
                                             -- Dalin B. Oaks
Banish Evil from the world? Nonsense! Encourage it, foster it, sponsor it. 
 The  world owes Evil a debt beyond imagination. Think! Without greed, ambition 
 falters. Without vanity, art becomes idle musing. Without cruelty, benevolence 
 lapses to passivity. Superstition has shamed man into self-reliance and, without 
 stupidity, where would be the savor of superior understanding?  -- Magnus Ridolf
Bare feet magnetize sharp metal objects so they always point 
 upward from the  floor - especially in the dark.              
                                               -- Al Ross
Barr's Hypothesis: Familiarity breeds content.
Bartz's Law of Hokey Horsepuckery: 
 The more ridiculous a belief system,
 the higher the probability of its success.       
                                           -- Wayne R. Bartz
Be a defensive driver. Buy a Tiger M31.
Be careful who you step on on the way up; 
 you never know who you'll pass on the way down.
Be like a duck, keep calm and unruffled on the surface 
 but paddle like the devil under water.
Be sure to save your money; 
 you never know when it might be worth something again.
Be tolerant of those who disagree with you
 after all, they have a right to their ridiculous opinions.
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
Beauty without virtue is like a flower without perfume.
Beck's Postulate: Murphy was an optimist.
Bedfellows make strange politicians.
Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
Behind every great man is a great woman. 
 Behind every great woman is a great behind.
                               -- anonymous male chauvinist
Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. 
 No resemblance.                               
                                                   -- Lazarus Long
Being in politics is like being a football coach. 
 You have to be smart enough to understand the game 
 and dumb enough to think it's important.
                                         -- Eugene McCarthy
Better Red than dead.                    -- Bertrand Russell
Better be alone than in bad company.
Better bend than break.
Better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a lamb.
Better to use medicines at the outset than at the last moment.
Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
                                                -- Mae West
Beware of people who fall at your feet. 
 They may be reaching for the corner of the rug.
Bicycle Law: All bicycles weigh 50 pounds: 
 A 30-pound bicycle needs a 20-pound lock and chain. 
 A 40-pound bicycle needs a 10-pound lock and chain. 
 A 50-pound bicycle needs no lock and chain.
Big people are those who make us feel bigger when we are with them.
Biochemistry expands so as to fill the space and time available 
 for its completion and publication.                       
                                     -- R. T. Hersh
Bismark's law: The less people know about how sausages and 
 laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night.
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
Blessed is he who expects no gratitude, 
 for he shall not be disappointed.                                      
                                  -- W. C. Bennett
Boren's Laws of Bureaucracy: 
 1. When in doubt, mumble. 
 2. When in trouble, delegate. 
 3. When in charge, ponder.        
                                -- James H. Boren
Boss to employer: 
 No, Baxter, you're not being replaced by a computer,
 only a silicon chip.                        
                             -- Eli Stein
Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
                                 -- Franklin P. Jones
Broken Mirror Law: 
 Everyone breaks more than the seven-year bad luck allotment 
 to cover rotten luck throughout an entire lifetime.
                                         -- Rozanne Weissman
Brontosaurus Principle: 
 Organizations can grow faster than their brains can manage them 
 in relation to their environment and to their own physiology: 
 when this occurs, they are an endangered species.
                                          -- Thomas K. Connellan
Brooks Atkinson described a Shubert play as "beautiful, 
 if you are deaf and dumb."
Build a system that even a fool can use, 
 and only a fool will want to use it.
                                     -- Christopher J. Shaw
Bureaucratic Cop-Out Number 1: 
 You should have seen it when I got it!
                                         -- Marshall L. Smith
Burn's Hog Weighing Method: 
 1. Get a perfectly symmetrical plank and balance it across a sawhorse. 
 2. Put the hog on one end of the plank.
 3. Pile rocks on the other end until the plank is again perfectly balanced. 
 4. Carefully guess the weight of the rocks.                -- Robert Burns
By definition, when you are investigating the unknown, 
 you do not know what you will find.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
By gnawing through a dyke even a rat may drown a nation.
                                        -- Edward Burke
By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy 
 dangerous to man - man himself. 
 So he must supply his own indispensable competition.
 He has no enemy to help him.                       
                                          -- Lazarus Long
By the time a person gets to greener pastures, 
 he can't climb the fence.
Cameras are so simple to operate now that taking pictures 
 is much easier than getting friends to look at them.                
                                                -- Hugh Allen
Campus sidewalks never exist as the straightest line 
 between two points.                                        
                      -- M. M. Johnston
Capital Punishment: The income tax.
Capital as such is not evil; 
 it is its wrong use that is evil.
                                        -- Mohandas Ghandi
Capitalism can exist in one of only two states: 
 welfare or warfare.
                                  -- Bill Gray
Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt; 
 And ev'ry grin so merry, draws one out.                                     
                                  -- Dr. Wolcott
Celibacy is not hereditary.            -- Guy Godin
Changing things is central to leadership, 
 and changing them before anyone else is creativeness.        
                                        -- Antony Jay
Children are unpredictable. 
 You never know what inconsistency they're going 
 to catch you in next.                       
                                   -- Franklin P. Jones
Children have more energy after a hard day of play 
 than they do after a good night's sleep.
                                 -- Dr. R. F. Gumperson
Circular Definition: see Circular Definition.
Clarke's law: 
 Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable
 from magic.
Clearly stated instructions will consistently produce 
 multiple interpretations.                               
                                  -- Charles P. Boyle
Cole's Law: Thinly sliced cabbage.
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary 
 is legalized robbery.
Colson's Law: If you've got them by the balls, 
 their hearts and minds will follow.
Coming home, I drove into the wrong house and collided 
 with a tree I don't have.
Committee Rules: 
 (1) Never arrive on time, or you will be stamped as a beginner.                           
                                               -- Harry Chapman
Committee Rules: 
 (2) Don't say anything until the meeting is half over;
     this stamps you as being wise.               
                                               -- Harry Chapman
Committee Rules: 
 (3) Be as vague as possible; this prevents irritating
     the  others.                              -- Harry Chapman
Committee Rules: 
 (4) When in doubt, suggest that a subcommittee be
 appointed.                                      
                                               -- Harry Chapman
Committee Rules: 
 (5) Be the first to move for adjournment; this will
     make you popular - it's what everyone is waiting for.
                                               -- Harry Chapman
Committee: a group of men who individually can do nothing 
 but as a group decide that nothing can be done.               
                                               -- Fred Allen
Committee - a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
                                               -- Milton Berle
Committee - a group of the unfit, appointed by the unwilling, 
 to do the unnecessary.                                       
                                               -- Stewart Harrol
Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees 
 have to be appointed to do the work.
Common and vulgar people ascribe all ill that they feel to others;
 people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; 
 people of much wisdom, to no one.                                 
                                             -- Epictetus
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
                                       -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Compared with everything else in data processing, paper is cheap; use it. 
 But the value of a report decreases as the number of its pages increases.
Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable.
                                                   -- Tom Gibb
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than 
 the estimate the job will cost.
Conscious is when you are aware of something and 
 conscience is when you wish you weren't.
Consider the Malevolent Universe Theory: 
 it really IS out to get you!
Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle 
 of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of 
 capitalism.                            
                                                       -- Walter Lippmann
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, 
 and conquering it.                            
                                                          -- Richter
Courage is the complement of fear. 
 A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. 
 (He is also a fool.)
                                             -- Lazarus Long
Courage is walking naked through a cannibal village.
                                     -- Leonard Louis Levinson
Courtship consists of a number of quiet attentions, 
 not so pointed as to alarm,
 nor so vague as not to be understood.    
                                                        -- Sterne
Coward, n. one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
                                                -- Ambrose Bierce
Cows may come and cows may go, but the bull in this place goes on
 FOREVER!!!
Crane's Rule: There are three ways to get something done: 
 do it yourself, hire someone, or forbid your kids to do it.
Creativity varies inversely with the number of cooks involved 
 with the broth.
                                       -- Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
Creditors have better memories than debtors; 
 and creditors are a superstitious sect, 
 great observers of set days and times.
                                           -- Benjamin Franklin
Croll's Query: If tin whistles are made of tin, 
 what are foghorns made of?
Cunning and deceit will every time serve a man better than force.
                                           -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Cursed is every-one who places his hope in man.      
                                             -- Saint Augustine
Cut 'em off at the past!
Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. 
 It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight 
 to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation.
                                                -- Johnny Hart
Cynic: n. a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, 
 not as they ought to be.                               
                                                 -- Ambrose Bierce
Cynics are right nine times out of ten; 
 what undoes them is their belief that they are right 
 ten times out of ten.
                          -- Professor Charles P. Issawi
DEATH: The penultimate commercial transaction finalized by probate.
                                              -- Bernard Rosenberg
DECEPTION EXPERIMENT: An experiment in which the researcher is pleased 
 to believe that the true nature of the situation is unknown to the 
 participants. Typically the only parties deceived are the funding agency 
 and the journal editor. 
DIAGNOSTIC: software which runs to completion no matter how 
 broken the hardware is.
DIPLOMACY: Lying in state.                      -- Ambrose Bierce
DIPLOMACY: The art of jumping into troubled waters 
 without making a splash.
DIRECT SALES ONLY: manufacturer had argument with distributor.
DISTINCTIVE: a different color or shape than our competitors.
DOUBLE-BLIND EXPERIMENT: An experiment in which the chief 
 researcher believes he is fooling both the subject and the 
 lab assistant. Often accompanied by a belief in the tooth fairy.
Deceit in the conduct of war outweighs valor and is worthy of merit.
                                            -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Decisions of the judges will be final unless shouted down by a really 
 overwhelming majority of the crowd present. Abusive and obscene language 
 may not be used by contestants when addressing members of the judging panel, 
 or, conversely, by members of the judging panel when addressing contestants 
 (unless struck by a boomerang).                            -- Benjamin Ruhe
Delusions are often functional. 
 A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, 
 et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth.                                    
                                                         -- Lazarus Long
Democracy can learn some things from Communism: 
 for example, when a Communist politician is through, he is through.
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better 
 than we deserve.
                                           -- George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think 
 even if you don't think.
                                                -- Lazarus Long
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
                                          -- Jawaharlal Nehru
Democracy is that form of government where everybody gets 
 what the majority deserves.
                                 -- James Dale Davidson
Democracy is the worst system devised by the wit of man, 
 except for all the others.                              
                                    -- Winston Churchill
Detriot made a grand try at persuading the visiting Republicans that the 
 city is not as crime-ridden as people think. The campaign was going fine 
 until somebody stole the governer's Lincoln Mark IV limousine.
                                                       -- National Review
Dialogue: opposing factions discussing relevant issues. 
 Formerly called an argument.                
                                             -- Paul Sweeney
Did the Devil really create the world when God wasn't looking?
Did you hear about the earthquake committee meeting 
 that was adjourned by a motion from the floor?
Did you hear about the shepherd who drove his sheep through 
 town and was given a ticket for making a ewe turn?
Did you know that married men live longer than single men? 
 So, if you want to die a slow death, get married!!!     
                                           -- Dave Maynard
Did your mother have any children that lived?
Dimensions will be expressed in the least convenient terms, 
 e.g.: Furlongs per (Fortnight)**2 = Acceleration.
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie!" till you can find a rock.
Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way.
Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for 
 finishing it.You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall 
 flat in a week.                               
                                                       -- Will Rogers
Do not believe in miracles--rely on them.
Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.
                                         -- Lazarus Long
Do not take life too seriously. 
 You will never get out of it alive.
Do whatever your enemies don't want you to do.       
                                -- Gary Novak
Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut.
                         -- Daniel S. Greenberg
Don't be irreplaceable. 
 If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.
Don't care if you're rich or not, 
 as long as you can live comfortably and have everything you want.
Don't forget to feel sorry for yourself.
Don't look back, something might be gaining on you.
                                  -- Satchel Paige
Don't malign the bug-eyed monster. 
 Oh, he kidnaps girls, it's true, 
 But bear in mind that all he wants to Do is what YOU'RE trying to do.
Don't permit yourself to get between a dog and a lamp-post.
Don't stop to stomp ants when the elephants are stampeding.
Don't worry about avoiding temptation - 
 as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
                                    -- The Old Farmer's Almanac
Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, 
 you can always take something for it.
Draw your salary before spending it.
Drink Canada Dry! You might not be able to, but it IS fun trying.
Dust breeds.
Each profession talks to itself in its own unique language. 
 Apparently there is no Rosetta Stone.
Eat a live toad first thing in the morning 
 and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
 -- Stanley C. Pearson 
 (On second thought, a bird in the hand is finger-licking good.)
Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest 
 tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor.
                                             -- Edgar R. Fiedler
Electrician's breakfast--ohmlettes            -- Raymond D. Love
Enjoy your life. If you don't, no one else will.
Enthusiasm without knowledge is like running in the dark.
Entropy has us outnumbered.                      -- Solomon Short
Epperson's law: When a man says it's a silly, childish game, 
 it' probably something his wife can beat him at.
Erma Bombeck's Rule of Medicine: 
 Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
Errors like straws upon the surface flow: 
 He who would search for pearls must dive below.                 
                                              -- Dryden
Ertz's observation: 
 Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with 
 themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Ettorre's Observation: The other line moves faster.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Even if it can't, it might.                        -- A. J. Barton
Even paranoids have enemies.                        -- Jim Pastore
Every man desires to live long, but no man desires to be old.
                                                -- Jonathon Swift
Every man has three characters--that which he exhibits, 
 that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.             
                                                 -- Alphonse Karr
Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it 
 all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.
                                            -- James Matthew Barrie
Everybody has 20/20 hindsight.
Everybody lies about sex.
Everybody should believe in something.  
 I believe I'll have another drink.                              
                                   -- Mary Steele
Everything is for sale; only the price is negotiable.
Everything should be as simple as possible, but no simpler.
                                                -- Albert Einstein
Examine the contents, not the bottle.                -- The Talmud
Executive ability is deciding quickly 
 and getting somebody else to do the work.                                     
                                        -- John G. Pollard
Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Experience is directly proportional to equipment ruined.
Experience is the one thing you have plenty of when you're 
 too old to get the job.
Experiments must be reproducible,
 they should always fail in the same way.
Exploit the inevitable (which means, take credit for anything 
 good which happens whether you had anything to do with it or not).
FIELD TEST: Putting your software out to pasture.
FIELD TESTED: manufacturer lacks test equipment
FOOLPROOF OPERATION: no provision for adjustment
FUTURISTIC: can't figure out another reason why it looks as it does
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
                                                -- Aldous Huxley
Faculty purchases of equipment and supplies always increase 
 to match the funds available, so these funds are never adequate.
                                              -- Thomas L. Martin
Few of us ever test our powers of deduction, 
 except when filling out an income tax form.
Finagle's Creed: Science is truth: Don't be misled by facts.
Find happiness in your work, or you may never find it anywhere else.
Fine's Corollary: Functionality breeds Contempt.
First draw your curves--then plot your data.
Flying saucers on occasion Show themselves to human eyes. 
 Aliens fume, put off invasion While they brand these tales as lies.
Food that tastes the best has the highest number of calories.
                                                -- Rozanne Weissman
Fools are certain, but wise men hesitate.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.        -- Alexander Pope
For every credibility gap there is a gullibility fill.
                                                -- Richard Clopton
For every proverb that confidently asserts its little bit of wisdom,
 there is usually an equal and opposite proverb that contradicts it.
                                                -- Richard Boston
For perfect happiness, remember two things: 
 1. Be content with what you've got. 
 2. Be sure you've got plenty.
For the first time in history, 
 one bag of groceries produces two bags of trash.
                                                  -- Robert Orben
For they can conquer who believe they can.        -- Virgil
For they say, if money go before, all ways do lie open.
                                                -- Shakespeare
Forecasting is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.
                                                -- Edgar R. Fiedler
Forget your opponents. Always play against par.        -- Sam Snead
Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, 
 freckles and doubt.                           
                                               -- Dorothy Parker
Fried's 23rd Law: 
 Ideas endure and prosper in inverse proportion to their soundness 
 and validity.
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another,
 "What! You, too? I thought I was the only one."               
                                                  -- C. S. Lewis
Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the 
 usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.                  
                                              -- Cicero
Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.                                     
                                                   -- John D. MacDonald
From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
                                                     -- Publilius Syrus
Fuch's warning: 
 If you actually look like your passport photo, 
 you aren't well enough to travel.
Fudge Factor: A physical factor occasionally showing up in 
 experiments as a result of stopping a stopwatch a little early 
 to compensate for reflex error.
Fudge Factor: The numerical factor by which experimental results 
 must be multiplied to be in agreement with theory.
GIGO: Garbage in, Gospel out.
Generally the theories we believe we call facts,
 and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.                     
                                                   -- Felix Cohen
Get Ahead!!! You could use one.
Get a shot off FAST! 
 This upsets him long enough to let you make your second shot perfect.                          
                                                      -- Lazarus Long
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.                                 
                                                            -- Mark Twain
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. 
 Teach him how to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life.
Give him an inch and he'll screw you.             -- Dave Farber
Given enough time, 
 what you put off doing today will eventually get done by itself.                              
                                                           -- G. Gestra
Go kiss a Wookiee!
Go where the money is.                 -- Bank robber Willie Sutton
God and the devil are an effort after specialization
 and division of labour.
God gives us relatives; thank God we can chose our friends.
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness its poison.
                                           -- Stanislaus
Good intentions always randomize behavior
                                           -- Marion J. Levy, Jr.
Good intentions are far more difficult to cope with 
 than malicious behavior.
                                           -- Marion J. Levy, Jr.
Good is recognized only when it goes away, evil when it comes.
Good judgement comes from experience. And experience,
 well that comes from having bad judgement.
Goodwill is achieved by many actions; it can be lost by one.
Greener's Law: Never argue with a man who buys ink by the barrel.
HAND CRAFTED: machine that assembles it is operated without gloves
HIGH ACCURACY: unit on which all parts fit
HYPOTHESIS: A prediction based on theory formulated after an experiment 
 is performed designed to account for the ludicrous series of events which 
 have taken place. 
Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at.
                                                     -- Solomon Short
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and  quoted.
                            -- Fred Allen (Sarcasm is the sour cream of wit.) 
Harris's Law: Any philosophy that can be put "in a nutshell" belongs there.
                                                 -- James Gibbons Hunekerm
Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
                                      -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.      
                                          -- Robert Cody
He had had had where he should have had had had.
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his 
 conversation perfectly delightful.                               
                                      -- Sydney Smith
He hated to set precedents; those who did so were sometimes 
 promoted, more frequently they joined their ancestors.        
                                            -- Robert A. Heinlein
He is a legend in his own mind.                    -- Ron Randall
He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
He that lives upon Hope dies farting.               
                                  -- Benjamin Franklin
He that uses many words for the explaining any subject, 
 doth like the cuttlefish, 
 hide himself for the most part in his own ink.
                                                -- Ray
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, 
 for time is the  greatest innovator.                      
                                          -- Francis Bacon
He that would have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.
                                                    -- Shakespeare
He travels fastest who travels alone,
 but he hasn't anything to do when he gets there.
He walks as if balancing the family tree on his nose.
He who can will. He who can't, will teach.        -
                                          -- M. M. Johnston
He who envies another admits his own inferiorities.
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
He who fights the devil with his own weapons, 
 must not wonder if he finds him an overmatch.                       
                                             -- South
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
He who has not a good memory, 
 should never take upon him the trade of lying.  
                                               -- Mintaigne
He who hesitates is poor.                        -- Max Bialystock
He who is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
He who is most slow in making a promise, is the most faithful 
 in the performance of it.                              
                                -- Rousseau
He who laughs last probably doesn't understand the joke.
He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
                                              -- Edgar R. Fiedler
He who receives a good turn should never forget it; 
 he who does one should never remember it.                   
                                        -- Charron
He who reforms himself, has done more towards reforming the public,
 than a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots.                
                                            -- Lavater
Hell hath no fury like a computer scorned.
Hell hath no fury like a pacifist.                -- Solomon Short
Hell is a place where the motorists are French, 
 the policemen are German, 
 the traffic patterns are Bostonian, 
 and the cooks are English.
Hell is truth seen too late.                        -- H. G. Adams
Henry James had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it.
                                                -- T. S. Eliot
Herman's Rule: If it works right the first time, 
 obviously you've done something wrong.
His imagination resembles the wings of an ostrich.
                                     -- Thomas Babington Macaulay
History proves nothing.                                -- Bill Gray
History repeats itself. 
 That's one of the things wrong with history.
                                                -- Clarence Darrow
Honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar.
                                             -- Shakespeare
How can I miss you if you won't go away?
How immense appear to us the sins that we have not committed.
How many Accountants does it take to change a light bulb? 
 Three. One to change the bulb, one to tell him how to do it, 
 and one to tell him he's doing it all wrong.                         
                                           -- Dave Ascher
How you look depends on where you go.
                                                - William Faulkner
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.            -- T. S. Eliot
I am not a crook.                              -- Richard M. Nixon
I am so optimistic about beef prices that I've just leased 
 a pot roast with an option to buy.
I collided with a stationary truck coming the other way.
I gave her the ring; she gave me the finger.
I had been driving my car for 40 years when I fell asleep 
 at the wheel and had an accident.
I had been shopping for plants all day and was on my way home.
 As I reached an intersection a hedge sprung up obscuring my vision. 
 I did not see the other car.
I had to hit him, he was starting to make sense.
I have a SPONGE that's drier behind the ears than you are!
I have a feeling that at any time about three million Americans 
 can be had for any militant reaction against law, decency, 
 the Constitution,the  Supreme Court, compassion and the rule of reason.
                                              -- John Kenneth Galbraith
I have discovered the art of fooling diplomats: 
 I speak the truth and they never believe me.                               
                                            -- Camillo Di Cavour
I just DON'T understand human behaviour.                -- C-3PO
I like work; it fascinates me; I can sit and look at it for hours.
I must have slipped a disk - my pack hurts.
I never fail to convince an audience that the best thing they 
 could do was to go away.
I pulled away from the side of the road, glanced at my 
 mother-in-law, and headed over the embankment.
I was on my way to the doctors with rear-end trouble 
 when my universal joint gave way causing me to have an accident.
I went to the race track once and bet on a horse that was so 
 good that it took seven others to beat him!
I'd rather go whoring than warring.                -- Bill Gray
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
I'm not afraid to die.
 I just don't want to be there when it happens.
                                                -- Woody Allen
I've seen better heads on half a pint of beer.
IT'S HERE AT LAST: rush job; nobody knew it was coming
If A equals success, then the formula is A = X + Y + Z. X is work. 
 Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.                
                                      -- Albert Einstein
If God wanted us to be brave, why did he give us legs?
                                     -- Marvin Kitman
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive!
                                             -- Samuel Goldwyn
If Patrick Henry thought that taxation without representation 
 was bad, he should see how bad it is with representation.
If a ball rims the cup, it is deemed to have dropped. 
 A ball should not go sideways. This violates the laws of physics.
                                                -- Donald A. Metz
If a ball stops at the brink of the hole and hangs there, defying
 gravity, it is deemed to have dropped. You can't defy the law of
 gravity.                                       -- Donald A. Metz
If a man is happy in his work--exerting himself to the full 
 extent of his capabilities, and enjoying it
 I'd say he's a success.
                          -- William Romain
If a man will go as far as he can see, 
 he will be able to see farther when he gets there.
If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.
If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.
If a putt passes over the hole without dropping, it is deemed to have dropped. 
 The law of gravity holds that any object attempting to maintain a position 
 in the atmosphere without something to support it must drop. 
 The law of gravity supercedes the law of golf.
                                                           -- Donald A. Metz
If a thing cannot be fitted into something smaller than 
 itself some dope will do it.                                   
                                   -- Eric Frank Russell
If a thing is done wrong often enough, it becomes right.
                                    -- Richard A. Leahy
If at first you don't succeed, transform your data set.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again. 
 Then quit, no use being a damn fool about things.                        
                                                 -- W. C. Fields
If beauty is only skin deep, you must have been born inside out.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, 
 the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
                                              -- Gerald Weinberg
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously 
 overlooked something.
If facts do not conform to theory, they must be disposed of.
                                          -- N. R. F. Maier
If good intentions are combined with stupidity, 
 it is impossible to outthink them.
                                   -- Marion J. Levy, Jr.
If humanity profits from its mistakes, 
 we have a glorious future coming up.
If it can be understood, it's not finished yet.        
                                              -- Paul Herbig
If it is generally known what one is supposed to be doing, 
 then someone will expect him to do it.                       
                                        -- Merle P. Martin
If it jams ... force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.
If it works well, they'll stop making it.
If it works, don't fix it.                   -- William O'Neill
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, 
 doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted; 
 musicians denoted; cowboys deranged; models deposed; 
 tree surgeons debarked and dry cleaners depressed?
                                                -- Virginia Ostman
If our standard of living gets much higher, 
 most of us won't be able to afford it.
If the average man is made in God's image, then such a man 
 as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God.
If thou hast a loitering servant, send him of thy errand 
 just before his dinner.                                    
                                -- Fuller
If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.       
                                          -- Laurence J. Peter
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, 
 we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough 
 to disarm all hostility.
                                                -- Longfellow
If you are concerned about being criticized, you're in the wrong job.
 However you vote, and whatever you do, somebody will be out there telling you 
 that you are: (a) wrong (b) insensitive (c) a bleeding heart (d) a pawn of 
 somebody else (e) too wishy-washy, (f) too unwilling to compromise, (g) all 
 of the above--consistency is not required of critic      -- Pierre S. du Pont
If you are to understand others, and have them understand you, 
 know the big words but use the small ones.
If you can keep your head when all about you others are losing 
 theirs, maybe you just don't understand the situation.
If you can't beat them, have them join you.       
                                            -- Charles Wolf, Jr.
If you can't convince them, confuse them.      
                                            -- Harry S. Truman
If you develop rules, never have more than ten.      
                                            -- Donald Rumsfeld
If you don't like the weather, move.
If you lose your temper at a newspaper columnist,
 he'll get rich or famous or both.                       
                                    -- James C. Hagerty,
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; 
 but if you really make them think they'll hate you.
If you pick up a dog and make him prosper he will not bite you. 
 This is the  basic difference between dogs and humans.       
                                                  -- Mark Twain
If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent 
 of doing you good, you should run for your life.
                                         -- Henry David Thoreau
If you stop to think about it, you're already dead.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
                                                -- Derek Bok
If you think this is funny, look in a mirror.
If you want to kill any idea in the world today, 
 get a committee working on it.
                                  -- Charles F. Kettering
If you were a character string, your length would be zero.
If you're confident after you've just finished an exam, 
 it's because you don't know enough to know better.             
                                               -- Jay Weisman
If you're ever right, never let 'em forget it.        
                                          -- Edgar R. Riedler
If your parents didn't have any children, 
 the odds are that you won't have any.
Illegetimus non carborundum!
Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.
                                           -- Napoleon Bonaparte
In Africa some of the native tribes have a custom of beating 
 the ground with clubs and uttering spine chilling cries. 
 Anthropologists call this a form of primitive self-expression. 
 We call it golf.
In God we trust, all others pay cash.
In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it
 would take a man many months to equal it.
In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus,
 "one when he was a boy and one when he was a man."
                                                     -- Mark Twain
In an attempt to kill a fly I drove into a telephone pole.
In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water; 
 in a developed country, don't breathe the air.
In every hierarchy, whether it be government or business, 
 each employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence; 
 every post tends to be filled by an employee incompetent 
 to execute its duties.
                                     -- Laurance J. Peter
In life there is but one bad thing and one good; 
 both of them are women.
In order to discover anything you must be looking for something.
                                              -- Harvey Neville
In order to get a loan, you must first prove you don't need it.
                                                -- John Cameron
In order to keep engineers and scientists cognizant of the importance 
 of progress, load them down with forms, multiple reports, 
 and frequent meetings.                                  
                                                  -- Richard F. Moore
In order to make [a person] covet a thing, 
 it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.                       
                                              -- Samuel Clemens
In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.     
                                          -- Napoleon Bonaparte
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, 
 not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.               
                                           -- Sir William Osler
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
                                                -- Franz Kafka
In the intercourse of life we please, often, by our defects 
 than by our good qualities.                               
                                           -- La Rochefoucauld
In times of crisis, 
 it is of utmost importance not to lose one's head.
                                           -- Marie Antoinette
Infant care has to be learned from the bottom up.
Inflation is when the only thing free of charge is a rundown battery.
Information flows efficiently through organizations, 
 except that bad news encounters high impedance in flowing upwards.
                                                -- Paul Gray
Interrogator's lunch--grilled cheese 
                                      -- Raymond D. Love
Is it bang for the buck, or pennies for a pop?
Is not absence death to those who love?                
                                        -- Alexander Pope
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain 
 than to be coming up it.                                
                                            -- Henry Allen
It is better to burn out than fade away.
                                          -- Neil Young
It is better to have nothing to do than to be doing nothing.
                                                -- Attilus
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
                                           -- Anatole France
It is customary for a decimal to be misplaced.
It is difficult to soar with eagles when you work with turkeys.
It is good that the young are beautiful; 
 it is the only advantage they have.
                                    -- The Duchess of Windsor
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, 
 and so universal as death, should ever have been designed 
 by Providence as an evil to mankind.                               
                                           -- Jonathon Swift
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one 
 has plenty of work to do.
It is impossible to make anything foolproof, because 
 fools are so ingenious.
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance,
 for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, 
 he that can perceive it hath it not.                           
                                             -- Jeremy Taylor
It is in the nature of mobs to cheer fools.
It is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; 
 it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
                                                -- Seneca
It is not the disease but neglect of the remedy which 
 generally destroys life.
It is not the quality of the meat, but the cheerfulness 
 of the guests, that makes the feast.                          
                                           -- Lord Clarendon
It is often easier to earn money than it is to spend it wisely.
It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being 
 deceived by cunning men.                                   
                                          -- La Rochefoucauld
It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
It is the height of absurdity to sow little but weeds in the 
 first half of one's lifetime and expect to harvest a valuable 
 crop in the second half.                                                
                                              -- Percy Johnston
It is the wise bird who builds his nest in a tree.
It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, 
 but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.        
                                              -- Lazarus Long
It may be true that human beings make more mistakes than 
 computers, but for a real foul up, give us a computer anytime.
It seems that nature has concealed at the bottom of our minds, 
 talents and abilities of which we are not aware. The passions alone have 
 the privilege of bringing them to light, and of giving us sometimes views 
 more certain and more perfect than art could possible produce.
                                                       -- La Rochefoucauld
It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.
It was one of those perfect summer days - the sun was shining, 
 a breeze was blowing, the birds were singing, 
 and the lawn mower was broken.
                                                -- James Dent
It's a good idea to keep your words soft and sweet to the taste. 
 You may have to eat them.
It's a sad house where the cock is silent and the hen crows.
It's better to keep your mouth closed and be presumed a fool 
 than to open it and remove all doubt.
It's so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing 
 in the Devil when he is the only explanation of it.
JOB PLACEMENT: Telling your boss what he can do with your job.
Jones's Law: The man who can smile when things go wrong 
 has thought of someone he can blame it on.
Justice, like lightning, ever should appear To few men's ruin, 
 but to all men's fear.                             -- Swetnam
Keep cool; especially during meltdowns.
Kilroy was here.
Knowledge is power.                                -- Bacon
LIGHTWEIGHT: lighter than rugged
LINEAR MODEL: An assumption concerning the nature of reality applied 
 unquestioningly to every relationship as though God had determined 
 that truth must always run in straight lines. 
Last guys don't finish nice.                       -- Stanley Kelly
Law of Institutional Food: Everything is cold except what should be.
Law of Institutional Food: Everything, including the corn flakes, 
 is greasy.
Law of Local Anesthesia: Never say "oops" in the operating room.
                                                -- Dr. Leo Troy
Law of Social Dynamics: If, in the course of several months, 
 only three worthwhile social events take place, 
 they will all fall on the same evening.
Laziness is the mother of nine inventions out of ten.
                                             -- Philip K. Saunders
Learn to be sincere. Even if you have to fake it.
                                             -- Solomon Short
Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
Let he who takes the plunge remember to return it by Tuesday.
Let no man presume to give advice to others 
 that has not first given good counsel to himself.                      
                                                  -- Seneca
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Let sleeping dogs lie.
Let the Wookiee win!
Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; 
 Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.
                                      -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Liberals don't care what people do, as long as it's compulsory.
Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
                                                -- Will Rogers
Liberty is being free from the things we don't like 
 in order to be slaves to the things we do like.              
                                              -- Ernest Benn
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties,
 passing from one step of success to another, 
 forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.            
                                           -- Samuel Johnson
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even
 though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a
 private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from
 non-practitioners.                                -- G. O. Ashley
Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.        -- Lazarus Long
Little progress can be made merely by repressing what is bad. Our great
 hope lies in developing what is good.
Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
                                                -- Joseph Wood Krutch
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.       
                                             -- George Jean Nathan
Love laughs at locksmiths.
Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood.
                                                -- Louise Beal
Love, the sole disease thou canst not cure.       
                                          -- Alexander Pope
Lull'd in the countless chambers of the brain, 
 Our thoughts are link'd by many a hidden chain; 
 Awake but one, and lo, what myriads arise! 
 Each stamps its image as the other flies.               
                                         -- Alexander Pope
M. D. to patient: First the good news
 you're going to have a disease named after you.
MEETS QUALITY STANDARDS: ours, not yours
METHODOLOGICALLY UNSOUND: 
 Using methodology with which I am unfamiliar.
Machines should work. People should think.        -- IBM motto
Maintain eternal vigilance, small squishy thing, 
 and kill anything that threatens.
                                  -- Viver farewell saying.
Make a wish, it might come true.
Make new friends but keep the old ones; 
 one is silver and the other's gold.
Make other people like themselves a little better 
 and rest assured they'll like you very much.
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure 
 there is one less rascal in the world.                               
                                         -- Thomas Carlyle
Malpractice makes malperfect.                     -- Solomon Short
Man is by nature metaphysical and proud. 
 He has gone so far as to think that the idealistic creations 
 of his mind, which correspond to his feelings, also represent reality.               
                                                     -- Claude Bernard
Man is forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. 
 He acts against God's command.  From the standpoint of the Church, 
 which represents authority, this is essentially sin. 
 From the standpoint of man, however, this is the beginning of human freedom.
                                                              -- Erich Fromm
Man shall never reach his full capacity while chained to the earth.
 We must take wing and conquer the heavens.        
                                               -- Icarus
Management is incapable of recognizing a true crisis.
                                                -- Gene Franklin
Management will select actions or events and convert them to crises. 
 It will then over-react.                               
                                   -- Gene Franklin
Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity 
 except by insuring that of everyone else. 
 If you wish to be happy yourself, you must also resign yourself 
 to seeing others also happy.                                              
                                              -- Bertrand Russell
Mankind would be vastly poorer if it had not been for men who were willing 
 to take risks against the longest odds. Even if it could be done, we would be 
 foolish to try to stamp out this willingness in man to buck seemingly hopeless
 odds. Our problem is how to remain properly venturesome and experimental
 without making fools of ourselves.                           -- Bernard Baruch
Many a family tree needs trimming.
Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that
 God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.
Many live by their wits but few by their wit.    -- Laurence J. Peter 
 (On the other hand, the witty man merely says what you would have said 
 if you had thought of it.)
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident 
 proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their 
 freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool who resolved not to go into the water
 till he had learned to swim.
                                                   -- Thomas Babington Macaulay
Marxist law of the distribution of wealth: 
 Shortages will be divided equally among the peasants.
The State has the best politicians money can buy.
Maternity pay? Now every Tom, Dick and Harry will get pregnant.
                                                -- Malcolm Smith
Matrimony is the root of all evil.
May the Great Camel of Paradise bestow upon you and yours a dropping.
May you get to Heaven a half hour before the Devil knows you're dead.
Men are apt to deceive themselves in big things, 
 but they rarely do so in particulars.
                                      -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, 
 in order that they should see twice as much as they say.               
                                                      -- Colton
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
                                                -- Gene Fowler
Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws 
 to take it away from them.
Men must either be caressed or annihilated and the injury must be such
 that the victim cannot pay you back for it. Whoever acts otherwise is
 obliged to stand forever with a knife in his hand.
                                                 -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Men seldom show dimples to girls who have pimples.
Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the 
 side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, 
 a single day's work an achievement for eternity.        
                                                -- Gabriel Heatter
Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don't understand.
                          -- Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw)
Might may not be right, but it usually wins.
Miller's corollary: Objects are lost because people look 
 where they are not instead of where they are.
Miraculous secret for the early recovery of patients: Inflation.
Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate.
Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.
                                                -- Russell Baker
Monday is an awful way to spend one-seventh of your life.
Money is a good servant, but a dangerous master.
                                                -- Bonhours
Money is a powerful aphrodisiac. 
 But flowers work almost as well.
Money is truthful. If a person speaks of his honor, 
 make him pay cash.
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.        
                                         -- H. G. Wells
Most general statements are false, including this one.
                                             -- Edmund C. Berkeley
Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.
                                                        -- Grenville
Most of us will never do great things, 
 but we can do small things in a great way.
Much that is dreadful and inhuman in history, much that one hardly likes to 
 believe, is mitigated by the reflection that the one who commands and the one 
 who carries out are different people. The former does not behold the sight and
 does not experience the strong impression on the imagination. The latter obeys
 a superior and therefore feels no responsibility for his acts -- Frederick Nietzsche
Munroe's Dictum: He that is without sin among you has been bored 
 for a lllllooooonnnnnggggg time.
Murphy's Last Law: If nothing went wrong today, you're probably dead.
Murphy's Law never fail~                         -- Walter J. Crowell
Murphy's Law of Thermodynamics: Things get worse under pressure.
Murphy's Law: Whatever can go wrong, will.
Murphy's Law: Whatever goes wrong, will get worse.
Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, 
 or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have moved, 
 And as with living souls have been inform'd 
 By magic numbers and persuasive sound.
                                                -- Congreve
My brother is an only child.                        -- Bennett Cerf
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend 
 the rest of my life there.
My mother loved children, she would have given anything if I had been one.               
                                                          -- Groucho Marx
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed
                                                 -- Christopher Morley
NEW: different color from previous design
NO MAINTENANCE: impossible to fix
Let's club radioactive gay whales with native trees!
NULL HYPOTHESIS: The type of hypothesis used by a pessimist.
Nature abhors a hero. 
 For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. 
 For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest 
 keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?                                      
                                                          -- Solomon Short
Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.
Nature often enshrines gallant and noble hearts in weak bosoms oftenest.  
 God bless her! in female breasts.
                                                -- Dickens
Needs are a function of what other people have.
Never appeal to a man's "better nature." He may not have one. 
 Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.       
                                             -- Lazarus Long
Never bow to authority, but always tip your hat.
                                                -- Jim Fiebig
Never confuse motion with action.                -- Benjamin Franklin
Never decide to buy anything while listening to the salesman.
                                       -- Edmund C. Berkeley
Never do anything for the first time.                -- Paul Herbig
Never find your delight in another's misfortune.
                                                -- Publius Syrus
Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.
                                                -- Cordell Hull
Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repainting.
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
                                                -- Salvor Hardin
Never say "The White House wants" - buildings don't "want." 
                                               -- Donald Rumsfeld
Never say no.
Never tamper with the truth. Never rationalize it. 
 What you might like to believe is not necessarily the truth.
Never tell people how to do things. 
 Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
                                             -- Gen. George S. Patton
Never try to out-stubborn a cat.                -- Lazarus Long
Never try to teach a pig to sing; 
 it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Never use one word when a dozen will suffice.        -- Paul Herbig
Nice going, sweetheart.                              -- Joe Patroni
No action is without side effects.                -- Barry Commoner
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; 
 a single experiment can prove me wrong.                       
                                      -- Albert Einstein
No cord or cable can draw so forcible, or bind so fast, 
 as love can do with a single thread.                            
                                        -- Burton
No experiment is ever a complete failure. 
 It can always serve as a bad example, 
 or the exception that proves the rule 
 (but only if it is the first experiment in the series).
No gnus is good gnus.
No good deed goes unpunished.                     -- Clare Boothe Luce
No man can be wise on an empty stomach.                -- George Eliot
No man was ever so much deceived by another man as by himself.
                                                -- Grenville
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature 
 is in session.
No matter how much you do, you'll never do enough.
No matter how often you trade dinner or other invitations with in-laws,
 you will lose a small fortune in the exchange. 
 Corollary: Don't try it; you cannot drink enough of your in-laws' booze 
 to get even before the liver fails.                               
                                          -- Jackson Clark
No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney.
                                                -- Alfred E. Smith
No matter what happens, 
 there is always somebody who knew that it would.
No one is as tired as the person who does nothing.
No one is ever old enough to know better.        
                                        -- Holbrook Jackson
No one man can terrorize a whole nation 
 unless we are all his accomplices.
Nothing in life is to be feared. 
 It is only to be understood.
Nothing is ever as simple as it seems.
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it is the real allegory of the tale 
 of Orpheus; it moves stones, it charms brutes. 
 Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, 
 and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
                                                     -- Bulwer
Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire of appearing so.                                              
                                                     -- La Rochefoucauld
Nothing succeeds like success.
                                  -- Alexandre Dumas, Pere
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Nothing worth a damn is ever done as a matter of principle. 
 If it is worth doing, it is done because it is worth doing. 
 If it is not, it's done as a matter of principle.                       
                                             -- James T. Evans
Numbers are symbols for things; 
 the number and the thing are not the same.                                             
                                        -- G. O. Ashley
Numbers are tools, not rules.                     
                                 -- G. O. Ashley
ONE-SHOT CASE STUDY: 
 The scientific equivalent of the four-leaf clover,
 from which it is concluded all clover possesses four leaves 
 and is sometimes green.
OREGANO (Ore-gah-no): The ancient Italian art of pizza folding.
OSHA's Discovery: Wet manure is slippery.
Obituaries are the last writes.
Occam's Razor: Entities ought not to be multiplied except from necessity.                                       
                                                     -- William of Occam
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is the most fatal.
Of all the agonies of life, that which is most poignant and harrowing - that 
 which for the most time annihilates reason and leaves our whole organization 
 one lacerated, mangled heart - is the conviction that we have been deceived 
 where we placed all the trust of love.
                                                                    -- Bulwer
Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated out 
 of nothing, "blasphemy" is the most amazing--with "obscenity" and
 "indecent exposure" fighting it out for second and third place.  
                                                   -- Lazarus Long
Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, 
 yet he has left it out of his heaven.                -- Mark Twain
Often statistics are used as a drunken man uses lampposts 
 - for support rather than illumination.
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
                                         -- Conte Vittorio Alfieri
Old Jedi Knights never die; they just fade in and fade out.
Old Scottish Prayer: O Lord, grant that we may always be right, 
 for Thou knowest we will never change our minds.
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.     
                                         -- Bernard M. Baruch
On a beautiful day like this it's hard to believe anyone 
 can be unhappy, but we'll work on it.                                
                                           -- Donald Barr
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, 
 we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government
 four years, no matter what it does.                                     
                                      -- Will Rogers
On beginning play, as many balls as may be required to obtain a
 satisfactory result may be played from the first tee. 
 Everyone recognizes a good player needs to "loosen up" 
 but does not have time for the practice tee.                               
                                             -- Donald A. Metz
On curing the depression that comes with having to work for a living:
 Stay home for a day and watch daytime TV.       
                                            -- Sheldon
On the other hand are four fingers and a thumb.
Once during prohibition I was forced to live for days on nothing 
 but food and water.                                
                               -- W. C. Fields
Once economists were asked, "if you're so smart, why ain't you rich?"
 Today they're asked, "Now that you've proved you ain't so smart, how
 come you got rich?" 
                                                  -- Edgar R. Fiedler
Once is not enough.                               
                      -- Jacqueline Suzzane
One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least
 somebody's listening.                                
                            -- Franklin P. Jones
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
                                                 -- Helen Keller
One cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs,
 but it is amazing how many eggs one can break 
 without making a decent omelette.
                                  -- Professor Charles P. Issawi
One does not have to keep bad governments in to keep Communists out.
                                          -- John Kenneth Galbraith
One fact is better than one hundred apologies.
One law for the lion and the ox is oppression.       
                                              -- William Blake
One learns to itch where one can scratch.       
                                         -- Ernest Bramah
One man with courage makes a majority.               
                                      -- Andrew Jackson
One man's brain plus one other will produce one half as many ideas 
 as one man would have produced alone. These two plus two more will produce 
 half again as many ideas. These four plus four more begin to represent a 
 creative meeting, and the ratio changes to one quarter as many ...
                                                         -- Anthony Chevins
One moment of patience may ward off a great disaster; 
 one moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.
One need only look at Dolly Parton to realize that good things 
 don't always come in small packages.
One of life's greatest pleasures: paying the last installment.
One of the joys of travel is 
 visiting new towns and meeting new people.
                                             -- Genghis Khan
One thing common to most success stories is the alarm clock.
One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion 
 is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks.              
                                            -- B. C. Forbes
Only the incompetent and mediocre are always at their best.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win 
 by fearing to attempt.                                
                             -- Shakespeare
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, 
 but in rising every time we fall.                                    
                                   -- Oliver Goldsmith
Our judgment can be no better than our information.
Our repentance is not so much regret for the evil we have done, 
 as fear of its consequences.
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want 
 and are willing to go through hell to get it.
PERFORMANCE PROVEN: will operate through warranty period.
POST-TEST: A test made too late.
PRE-TEST: A test made too early.
PUNCH MEN KICK WOMEN CHOP CHILDREN
 Sign in window of karate studio
Parkinson's Law of 1000: 
 An enterprise employing more than 1000 people becomes a 
 self-perpetuating empire, creating so much internal work that
 it no longer needs any contact with the outside world.
Parkinson's Telephone Law: the effectiveness of a telephone conversation
 is in inverse proportion to the time spent on it.
Passengers on elevators constantly rearrange their positions as people
 get on and off so there is at all times an equal distance between all
 bodies.                                       
                                                       -- John Sharkey
Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, 
 and renders the greatest fools clever.                             
                                        -- La Rochefoucauld
People are always available for work in the past tense.
People are never so ready to believe you as when you say things in dispraise 
 of yourself; and you are never so much annoyed as when they take you at 
 your word.                              
                                                         -- Somerset Maugham
People fail many times, but they become failures only 
 when they begin to blame someone else.
People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be, 
 not what you nag them to be.
People may forget how fast you did a job, 
 but they will remember how well you did it.
People seldom improve, when they have no other model but themselves to copy.     
                                                        -- Oliver Goldsmith
People who believe that the dead never come back to life should be here 
 at quitting time.
People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens 
 are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.
                                                       -- Norman Cousins
People who fail to understand their past mistakes 
 may be condemned to make them over again.
People who have no faults are terrible; 
 there is no way of taking advantage of them.
People who live in glass houses shouldn't stow thrones.
People who lose their heads are usually the last to miss them.
People who run down others are taking a roundabout way of praising themselves.
People who wait until they feel like doing a job rarely do.
People who will not admit they've been wrong love themselves 
 more than they love the truth.
People who write the most interesting and effective letters 
 never answer letters. 
 They answer people.
People will be happy in about the same degree that they are helpful.
Perfect valor is to do unwitnessed 
 what we should be capable of doing before all the world.
                                           -- Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability 
 to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, 
 whether you like it or not.
                                                 -- Thomas Henry Huxley
Peter's Inversion: Internal consistency is valued more highly
 than efficiency.                                        
                                         -- Laurance J. Peter
Peter's Paradox: Employees in a hierarchy do not really object to
 incompetence in their colleagues.               
                                         -- Laurance J. Peter
Peter's Placebo: An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance.
                                              -- Laurance J. Peter
Phases of a project:
 1. Exultation 2. Disenchantment
 3. Confusion  4. Search for the guilty
 5. Punishment of the innocent  
 6. Distinction for the uninvolved
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
                                                -- Don Marquis
Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.
                                                   -- Lazarus Long
Platonic friendship:
 The interval between the introduction and the first kiss.
                                     -- Sophie Irene Loeb
Pleasure that comes unlooked for is thrice welcome.
                                                -- Rogers
Policeman's barbecue - steak-out 
                                  -- Raymond D. Love
Political economy:
 Two words that should be divorced on grounds of incompatibility.
                                     -- The Wall Street Journal
Politicians will always inflate when given the opportunity.
Politics isn't too bad a profession. 
 If you succeed, there are many rewards
 If you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
                                                -- Elbert Hubbard
Positive: Being mistaken at the top of one's voice.
                                                -- Ambrose Bierce
Poster in Belgrade tourist office:
  Visit the Soviet Union before it visits you.
Practice does not make perfect; 
 perfect practice makes perfect.
                                   -- Vince Lombardi
Preserve the old, but know the new.
Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.       
                                           -- Benjamin Franklin
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back.
                                                -- Pat Hein
Pure drivel tends to drive ordinary drivel off the TV screen.
                                            -- Marvin Kitman
Put your brain in gear before starting your mouth.
Put your trust in those who are worthy.
Quit when you're still behind.                       
                                     -- Pierre Salinger
Quit while you're ahead. You may not get another chance.
RADICAL:
 A person whose left hand does know what his other left hand is doing.
                                                 -- Bernard Rosenberg
RANDOMIZATION: The assignment of subjects to conditions in an experiment
 according to some preconceived plan. 
 Randomness like chastity is more often claimed than maintained. 
REDESIGNED: Previous faults corrected, we hope.
RELIABLE: Sometimes capable of giving the same results.
RELIGION: A daughter of Hope and Fear, 
 explaining to Ignorance the nature  of the Unknowable.                        
                                               -- Ambrose Bierce
REPUTATION: What others are not thinking about you.
REVIEWER'S NOTE: A rejection slip based upon literature and theories in
 vogue during the period the reviewer was studying for his or her Ph.D.
REVOLUTIONARY: It's different from our competitors.
RUGGED: Too heavy to lift.
Raising pet electric eels is gaining a lot of current popularity.
Randomness: The property required to make statistical calculation come
 out right.
Ray's Hangover Cure: Stay drunk!
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, 
 but from doing something worthwhile.
                                    -- Sir Wilfred Grenfell
Reality is for people who can't take science fiction.
Reassurance of business by a President 
 has an unfavorable effect on confidence.                                   
                                        -- Mark Epernay
Reforms come from below. 
 No man with four aces howls for a new deal.
                                                -- John F. Parker
Regardless of whether a mission expands or contracts, 
 administrative overhead continues to grow at a steady rate.
                                          -- Charles J. Zimmerman
Remember: LSD absorbs 47 times it own weight in excess reality.
Reunite Gondwanaland!!
Rowe's Rule: The odds are 6 to 5 that the light at the end of the tunnel
 is a headlight of an oncoming express train. 
Rule of Parenthood: Enough is never enough.      
                                          -- Phyllis C. Richman
Rules for Academic Deans: 
 (1). HIDE!!!! 
 (2). If they find you, LIE!!!!
                                 -- Father Damian C. Fandal
Rules: 1. The boss is always right. 
 2. When the boss is wrong, refer to rule 1.
Ryan's Law: Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will
 establish yourself as an expert.
SATISFACTION GUARANTEED: Manufacturer's, upon receipt of the check
STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: Mysterious, sometimes bizarre, manipulations
 performed upon the collected data of an experiment in order to obscure
 the fact that the results have no generalizable meaning for humanity.
 Commonly, computers are used, lending an additional aura of unreality
 to the proceedings. 
SUCCESS: Living long enough to be a burden on your children.
Sam's Axiom: Any line, however short, is still too long.
Sanity and insanity overlap a fine gray line.        
                                           -- Charles van Kriedt
Sattingler's Law: It works better if you plug it in.
Say's Law: Supply creates its own demand.
Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
                                          -- Thomas Henry Huxley
Science does not have a moral dimension.
 It is like a knife. 
 If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, 
 each will use it differently.
                                             -- Werner von Braun
Science is a flickering light in our darkness, 
 it is but the only one we have and woe to him who would put it out.        
                                                    -- Morris Cohen
Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, 
 so is science made of facts; 
 but a pile of stones is not a house 
 and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.                     
                                           -- Henri Poincaire
Scientific and humanist approaches are not competitive 
 but supportive, and both are ultimately necessary.    
                                               -- Robert C. Wood
Scientists who dislike the restraints of highly organized research like to 
 remark that a truly great research worker needs only three pieces of equipment 
 a pencil, a piece of paper, and a brain. But they quote this maxim more often 
 at academic banquets than at budget hearings.
                                                                  -- Don Price
Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.
Secretary's Lament: Around here I'm a very responsible person. 
 If anything happens, I'm responsible.
Self-centered people are those who spend so much time talking about
 themselves we never get a chance to talk about ourselves.
Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, 
 chances are you won't either.                                     
                                  -- Joseph Fischer
Share your happiness with others today.
She has as much originality as a Xerox machine.       
                                              -- Laurence J. Peter.
She's learned to say things with her eyes 
 that others waste time putting into words.
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I'll show you a failure.
                                         -- Thomas Alva Edison
Show your affection, which will probably meet with pleasant response.
Sign in a cluttered, old-fashioned hardware store: 
 "We've got it, if we can find it."
Sign in a loan company window: 
 "Now you can borrow enough money to get completely out of debt."
Simplicity is the true test.                     -- Ron Randall
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. 
 All other "sins" are invented nonsense. 
 (Hurting yourself is NOT a sin--just stupid.) 
                                               -- Lazarus Long
Since no matter can be created or destroyed (excluding nuclear and
 cafeteria substances),as one attempts to remove unwanted material (i.e. trash) 
 from one's living space, the remaining material mutates so as to occupy 
 30 to 50 percent more than its original volume.
Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.       
                                                                -- John Sloan
Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing;
 education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
                                                             -- Will Durant
Skiing is so much fun. 
 The bright blue above you 
 ... AND THE BRIGHT BLUE BELOW YOU!
Skinner's Constant: That quantity, which, when multiplied by, divided by, 
 added to, or subtracted from the answer you get, gives you the answer 
 you should have gotten.
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; 
 and he that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce 
 overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, 
 that poverty soon overtakes him.                                               
                                 -- Benjamin Franklin
Small opportunities are often the beginnings of great achievements.
Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, 
 but just look at what they can do when they stick together.
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult 
 for people to work.
So sure are you! Tried have you? Always with you it cannot be done. 
 Hear you nothing that I say? Try not. Do! Do! Or do not. 
 There is no try.
                                                -- Yoda
Social legislation cannot repeal physical laws.      
                                               -- Dalin B. Oaks
Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn't needed, 
 and in hell where they've got it.                                
                                  -- Cecil Palmer
Society heaps honors on the unique, creative personality, 
 but not until he has been dead for fifty years.
                                        -- Charles Merrill Smith
Some do, some don't.
Some people are quick to criticize cliches, but what is a cliche? 
 It is a truth that has retained its validity through time. 
 Mankind would lose half its hard-earned wisdom, 
 built up patiently over the ages, 
 if it ever lost its cliches.                               
                                             -- Marvin G. Gregory
Some people who slap you on the back are trying to help you 
 swallow what they just told you.
Some performers on television appear to be horrible people, 
 but when you  finally get to know them in person, 
 they turn out to be even worse.
                                                -- Avery
Someone whom you reject today, will reject you tomorrow.
Sometimes the best law of all is no law at all. 
 Not all the world's ills are susceptible to legislative correction.       
                                               -- Pierre S. du Pont
Sometimes the crowd is right.
Space expands to house the people to perform the work that Congress creates.                                       
                                                          -- Haynes Johnson
Spanish Civil War Communique: 
 Our troops advanced today without losing a foot of ground.
Speak little and well, if you would be esteemed as a man of merit.
                                                        -- Trench
Speed bumps are of negligible effect when the vehicle exceeds
 triple the desired restraining speed.
Sprinkle's Law: Things fall at right angles.
Statistics are a highly logical and precise method for saying a half-truth inaccurately.
Stockbroker's Declaration: 
 The market will rally from this or lower levels.
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
Student's snack--cramberries                 -- Raymond D. Love
Success can be insured only by devising a defense against the contingency plan.                   
                                                           -- Charles P. Boyle
Success goes to your head, failure to your heart.
Success is doing what you like to do and making a living at it.
Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and 
 conceit. Nelson, when young was piqued at not being noticed in a certain 
 paragraph of the newspapers, which detailed an action wherein he had assisted.
 "But never mind," said he, "I will one day have a gazette of my own."
                                                                     -- Colton
Sufficient monies to do the job correctly the first time are usually not available 
 however, ample funds are much more easily obtained for repeated major re-designs.
Symington's Law: For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.
TANK: A means of transportation the Soviet army uses to visit its friends.
THE PROGRAMMERS' CHEER?-- SHIFT TO THE LEFT, SHIFT TO THE RIGHT! 
 POP UP, PUSH DOWN, BYTE, BYTE, BYTE!
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Taken as a whole, the universe is absurd.
                                        -- Walter Savage Landor
Talent in staff work or sales will recurringly be interpreted as managerial ability.                             
                                              -- Charles P. Boyle
Talk of revolution is one way of avoiding reality.
                                             -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Taxes are going up so fast, 
 the government is likely to price itself out of the market.
Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
That which is good to be done, cannot be done too soon; 
 and if it is neglected to be done early, 
 it will frequently happen that it will not be done at all.                                
                                                 -- Bishop Mant
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes 
 the height of wisdom in another.                
                                          -- Adlai Stevenson
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
                                        -- Neil Armstrong
That's only true because it's true.
When your client's hopping mad, Put his picture in the ad. 
 If he still should prove refractory, Add a picture of his factory.
The Banana Principle: Heuristic devices don't tell you when to stop.
The Bougourre Factor changes the equation to fit the Universe.
The Brain-Eye Law: To a certain extent, observational power can
 compensate for mental weakness.
The Constitution ... speaks of liberty and prohibits the deprivation of liberty 
 without due process of law. In prohibiting that deprivation the Constitution 
 does not recognize an absolute and uncontrollable liberty.
                                          -- Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes
The Diddle factor changes things so that the equation and the universe 
 appear to fit, without requiring any real change in either. 
 This has the characteristic of eliminating differences by dropping 
 the subject under discussion to zero importance.
The Eighth Commandment of Frisbee: In any crowd of spectators at least
 one will suggest that razor blades could be attached to the disc. 
 ("You could maim and kill with that thing.") 
                                                   -- Dan Roddick
The English laws punish vice; 
 the Chinese laws do more, 
 they reward virtue.                                       
                                  -- Oliver Goldsmith
The Brain-Eye Law: 
 To some extent, brainpower can make up for lack of observational ability.
The Finagle Factor is characterized by 
 changing the universe to fit the equation.
The First Commandment of Frisbee: 
 The most powerful force in the world is that of a disc straining to land 
 under a car, just beyond reach.
 This force is technically called "car suck".       
                                                -- Dan Roddick
The Fourth Commandment of Frisbee: 
 The higher the costs of hitting any object,
 the greater the certainty it will be struck. 
 (Remember the disc is positive, both cops and old ladies are clearly negative)
                                                                 -- Dan Roddick
The How Come It All Landed On Me Law: 
 Whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.
The Law of Fashion: The same dress is: indecent 10 years before its time;
 daring 1 year before its time; chic in its time; dowdy 3 years after its time; 
 hideous 20 years after its time; amusing 30 years after its time; 
 romantic 100 years after its time; beautiful 150 years after its time.  
                                                                 -- James Laver
The Law of the Too, Too Solid Point: 
 In any collection of data, the figure that is most obviously correct 
 beyond all need of checking is the mistake.
The Lord giveth, the TAX MAN taketh away.
The Lord made grass, Man made booze; Who CAN you trust?
The Lump Law: 
 If we want to learn anything, we mustn't try to learn everything. 
The Ninth Commandment of Frisbee: 
 The greater your need to make a good catch, the greater the probability 
 your partner will deliver his worst throw. 
 (If you can't touch it, you can't trick it.)
                                                          -- Dan Roddick
The Principle of Indifference: 
 Laws should not depend on a particular choice  of notation.
The Second Commandment of Frisbee: The higher the quality of a catch or
 the comment it receives, the greater the probability of a crummy throw.
 (Good catch = bad throw.)  
                                                    -- Dan Roddick
The Seventh Commandment of Frisbee: 
 The most powerful hex words in the sport are:
 "I really have this down - watch." (Know it? Blow it!)
                                                       -- Dan Roddick
The Sixth Commandment of Frisbee: 
 The greatest single aid to distance is for the disc to be going 
 in a direction you did not want. 
 (Goes the wrong way = Goes a long way.)
                                                       -- Dan Roddick
The Tenth Commandment of Frisbee: 
 The single most difficult move with a disc is to put it down. 
 (Just one more.) 
                                               -- Dan Roddick
The Third Commandment of Frisbee: 
 One must never precede any manoeuvre by a comment more predictive than, 
 "Watch this!" (Keep 'em guessing.) 
                                                          -- Dan Roddick
The absent are always in the wrong.
The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.
                                                -- Charles Reade
The absent are never without fault. 
 Nor the present without excuse.
                                                -- Benjamin Franklin
The amount of effort put into a campaign by a worker expands in
 proportion to the personal benefits that he will derive from his
 party's victory.                           
                                          -- Milton Rakove
The amount of flak on any subject is inversely proportional to the
 subject's true value.
The amount of pleasure derived from a cigarette is directly proportional
 to the number of the non-smokers in the vicinity.
                                                    -- Raj K. Dhawan
The ancient sage who concocted the maxim, 
 "Know Thyself" might have added, 
 "Don't Tell Anyone!" 
                                         -- H. F. Henrichs
The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has 
 just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you 
 a greater one.
                                             -- Russell Lynes
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
                                           -- William James
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and 
 to preserve change amid order.
                                   -- Alfred North Whitehead
The ass is still an ass, e'en though he wears a lion's hide.
                                             -- Shakespeare
The atom was not meant to be explored: Its splitting was the work of brazen 
 fools. Let's march until the Stone Age is restored, With rocks and flints 
 our kind of splitting tools. Atomic Power? Seal it in its grave.  
 We are Progressive. Onward to the cave!      
                                                             -- Jack Kirwan
The attacker must vanquish; the defender need only survive.
The average woman would rather have beauty than brains because 
 the average man can see better than he can think.
The best index to a person's character is:
 (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and 
 (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.                                             
                                    -- Abigail Van Buren
The best portion of a good man's life, 
 His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.     
                                                   -- Wordsworth
The best programmers, designers, and architects are lazy.
                                                -- Dick Munroe
The best prophet of the future is the past.
The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.
The best time to look for work is after you get the job.
The best way I know of to win an argument is to start 
 by being in the right.                                               
                             -- Quentin Hogg,M.P.
The best way out of a problem is through it.
The best way to get and keep good people is to give them room to grow.
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere
 pleasant and let the air out of the tires.        
                                                -- Dorothy Parker
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
The best way to publicize a governmental or political action
 is to attempt to hide it.                                
                                  -- Mark B. Cohen
The bigger the man, the less likely he is to object to caricature.
                                            -- Guernsey Le Pelley
The biggest step you can take is the one you take when you meet the
 other person halfway.
The bitter part of discretion is valor.                
                                       -- Henry W. Nevinson
The business of living is not to get ahead of others, 
 but to get ahead of ourselves.
The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, 
 to gnaw and stifle it.                                       
                             -- Hazlitt
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are 
 too strong to be broken.                                  
                              -- Samuel Johnson
The chance of the bread falling buttered side down is directly
 proportional to the cost of the carpet.
The chief defect of a democracy is that only the political party 
 out of office knows how to run the government.
The Christians were the first to make the existence of Satan 
 a dogma of the church.
The cigarette smoke always drifts in the direction of the non-smoker
 regardless of the direction of the breeze.       
                                            -- Raj K. Dhawan
The conqueror is regarded with awe, 
 the wise man commands our esteem,
 but it is the benevolent man who wins our affection.
The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp 
 of executive power.                               -- Daniel Webster
The correct way to punctuate a sentence that starts: 
 "Of course it is none of my business but" is to place a period after the word
 "but." Don't use excessive force in supplying such a moron with a period.
 Cutting his throat is only a momentary pleasure and is bound to get you talked 
 about.                                                         -- Lazarus Long
The countenance may be rightly defined as the title page which heralds
 the contents of the human volume, but like other title pages, 
 it sometimes puzzles, often misleads, and often says nothing to the purpose.                                       
                                                         -- William Matthews
The cynic who doesn't believe in anything still wants you to believe him.
The deficiency will never show itself during the dry runs.
                                                -- Charles P. Boyle
The degree of failure is in direct proportion to the effort expended 
 and to the need for success.
The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with one's knowledge 
 of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.       
                                              -- Bertrand Russell
The desire for racial integration increases with the square of the
 distance from the actual event.
The desire of knowledge, 
 like the thirst of riches, 
 increases ever with the acquisition of it.                          
                                         -- Sterne
The devil knew not what he did when he made man politic.
                                            -- Shakespeare
The difference between a chef and a cook seems to be in 
 who cleans up the kitchen.                                   
                                                 -- Paul Sweeney
The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right 
 and doing a thing exactly right.           
                                          -- Edward Simmons
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes 
 from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
The best security against revolution is in constant correction of 
 abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. 
 It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.   
                                                 -- Richard Whately
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects 
 is that science requires reasoning, 
 while those other subjects merely require scholarship.                                       
                                                       -- Lazarus Long
The dossier is not the person.                       
                               -- Dr. John Gall
The early bird catches the worm as a rule, 
 but the guy who comes along later may be having lobster Newburg 
 and crepes suzette.
                                        -- Charles Merrill Smith
The easiest way to figure the cost of living is 
 to take your income and add ten percent.
The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement                                       
                                                              -- Jack Rosenbaum
The economy depends about as much on economists 
 as the weather does on weather forecasters.
                                                -- Jean-Paul Kauffmann
The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.        
                                          -- Shakespeare
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, 
 payable with interest, 
 about thirty years after date.        
                                          -- Colton
The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions 
 is the most likely to be correct.
The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other 
 people: I was saved, they were damned. Our hymns were loaded with arrogance, 
 self-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high 
 opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else would catch come judgement day.               
                                                          -- Robert Heinlein
The final answer will exceed the magnitude or precision or both 
 of the calculator.
The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, 
 as iron is most strongly welded by the fiercest fire.
The first 90 percent of the task takes 90 percent of the time, 
 the last 10 percent takes the other 90 percent.
The first myth of management is that it exists. 
 The second myth of management is that success equals skill.        
                                        -- Robert Heller
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
 Or what's a heaven for?".
                              -- Robert Browning
Man is a goal seeking animal.
 His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving
 for his goals.
                              -- Aristotle
Without goals, and plans to reach them,
 you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.
                              -- Fitzhugh Dodson
Life can be pulled by goals
 just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
                              -- Viktor Frankl
Establishing goals is all right if you dont't let them deprive
 you of interesting detours.
                              -- Doug Larson
You are never too old to set another goal
 or to dream a new dream.
                              -- C.S. Lewis
To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal,
 is the secret of success.
                              -- Anna Pavlova
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal,
 and then leap in the dark to our success.
                              -- Henry David Thoreau
What you get by achieving your goals is not as
 important as what you become by achieving your goals.
                              -- Zig Ziglar
To teach is to learn twice.
                            -- Joseph Joubert
Never cut what you can untie.
                            -- Joseph Joubert
Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
                                                 -- Joseph Joubert
It is better to debate a question without settling it
 than to settle a question without debating it.
                                               -- Joseph Joubert
Children are more in need of models than of critics.
                                                 -- Joseph Joubert
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
                                                 -- Joseph Joubert
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.
                                                        -- Joseph Joubert
The realistic way to reduce the amount of money in politics
 is to reduce the amount of politics in money.
                                                        -- George F Will
Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox;
 they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.
                                                   -- George F Will
A monk asks a superior if it is permissible to smoke while praying. The superior says
 certainly not. Next day, the monk asks if it is permissible to pray while smoking.
 That, says the superior, is not merely permissible, it is admirable. 
 The moral of the story is that much depends on how a thing is presented.      
                                                                     -- George F Will
You don't know how many years it's taken me to get him to say horse manure.
                                                         -- Harry S Truman
There will come a time when your time has come.
                                                -- Dean Oswald
If it's easy to accomplish, it isn't much of a goal.
                                                      -- Mardy Grothe
To exist is to change, to change is to mature,
 to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
                                 -- Henri Bergson
Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune;
 but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character.
                                         -- George Dana Boardman
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
                                    -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is easier to live through someone else
 than to become complete yourself.
                         -- Betty Friedan
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself.
                                     -- Erich Fromm
If you don't have a plan for what you want,
 then you will probably find yourself buying into someone else's plan
 and later find out that was not the direction you wanted to go.
 You've got to be the architect of your life.
                                                          -- Jim Rohn
People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself.
 But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
                                                      -- Thomas Szasz
Maturity includes the recognition that no one
 is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves.
 Stop waiting for a producer.  Produce yourself.
                                        -- Marianne Williamson
Hot can be cool and cool can be hot,
 and each can be both.
 But hot or cool, man, jazz is jazz.
          -- Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
                                -- Desiderius Erasmus
For what is life but a play in which everyone
 acts a part until the curtain comes down.
                                -- Desiderius Erasmus
It is better to live at home and visit exotic places,
 than to live in an exotic place and have to visit home.
                                        -- Chris Stokes
All blame is a waste of time.
 No matter how much fault you find with another,
 and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you.
                                                    -- Wayne Dyer
One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual
 responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your
 problems on.  And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often
 his picture turns up on your driver's licence.
                                                        -- P J O'Rourke
The most entertaining surface on earth is the human face.
                                      -- G C Lichtenberg
You can only be young once but you can be immature forever.
                                             -- Dave Barry
People who want to share their religious views with you
 almost never want you to share yours with them.
                                          -- Dave Barry
Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill
 and a laxative on the same night.
                                     -- Dave Barry
As sensitive and broad-minded humans, we must never allow ourselves
 to be in any way judgmental of the religious practices of other
 people, even when these people clearly are raving space loons.
                                                      -- Dave Barry
People who blame others for their failures have no qualms
 about taking credit for their successes.
                                          -- Mardy Grothe
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem
 to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
                                              -- John Foster Dulles
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
                                  -- Brendan Francis
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking
 we used when we created them.
                                        -- Albert Einstein
The solution of every problem is another problem.
                   -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you are able to state a problem, then the problem can be solved.
                     -- Edwin Land, inventor of the instant camera
It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.
                                                     -- M Scott Peck
The problem is not that there are problems.  The problem is
 expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
                                                  -- Theodore Rubin
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem
 in a way that will allow a solution.
                                         -- Bertrand Russell
Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue
 in the state of being alive.  If life is to be sustained,
 hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
                                               -- Wernher von Braun
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances
 that we know to be desperate.
                                   -- G K Chesterton
If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.
                              -- Thomas Fuller, MD
A leader is a dealer in hope.
                     -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Hope is generally a wrong guide,
 though it is good company along the way.
                          -- George Savile (Lord Halifax)
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft,
 and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labour.
                                                     -- Von Braun
Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that,
 with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.
                                                 -- Von Braun
Actions lie louder than words.
               -- Carolyn Wells
A guilty conscience is the mother of inventions.
                               -- Carolyn Wells
Every dogma must have its day.
                               -- Carolyn Wells
We should live and learn;
 but by the time we've learned,
 it's too late to live.
                               -- Carolyn Wells
Advice is one of those things
 it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
                               -- Carolyn Wells
Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight
 in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, 
 is hiding something.
                                        -- Clifton Fadiman
For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope
 in which to get themselves filed.
                                           -- Clifton Fadiman
There are two ways of meeting difficulties:
 You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.
                                            -- Phyllis Bottome
The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity.
 The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
                                  -- Winston Churchill
In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.
                                -- Albert Einstein
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
                                                     -- T H Huxley
To overcome difficulties is to experience the full
 delight of existence.
                            -- Arthur Schopenhauer
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare,
 it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
                                                 -- Seneca
The individual woman is required a thousand times a day to choose
 either to accept her appointed role and thereby rescue her good
 disposition out of the wreckage of her self-respect, or else follow
 an independent line of behaviour and rescue her self-respect out of
 the wreckage of her good disposition.           -- Jeannette Rankin
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
                                     -- Jeannette Rankin
You take people as far as they will go,
 not as far as you would like them to go.
                     -- Jeannette Rankin
If we are all in agreement on the decision, then I propose we postpone
 further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give
 ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some
 understanding of what the decision is all about.
                                                     -- Alfred P Sloan
In any organisation men should move up from the bottom to the top.
 That develops loyalty, ambition, and talent because there is a 
 chance for promotion.  Never inject a man into the top, if it can be
 avoided.                                           -- Alfred P Sloan
Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
                                        -- Alfred P Sloan
Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he
 wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
                                         -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
                                       -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
Hating people is like burning down your own house
 to get rid of a rat.
                         -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
All too often the wool they pull over your eyes 
 is the fabric of society.
                                 -- Jack Koster
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top.
 Then you will see how low it was  -- Dag Hammarskjold
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the 
 second best is anything but second best.   -- Doris Lessing
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
 -- Horace Mann
Without some goal and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.
   -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect
 yourself.   -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were
 unthinkable ten years before they appeared?  -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
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
What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that
 independence may cost and wherever it may lead. 
 -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
If triangles created a god, they would make him three-sided.
 -- Baron Charles de Montesquieu
One face to the world, another at home makes for misery.
 -- Amy Vanderbilt
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be.
 Because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose,
 and then where are you?.  -- Fanny Brice
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
 -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
For if a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot
 be loyal to anything.  -- Claude McKay
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about
 what we pretend to be.  -- Kurt Vonnegut
The trouble about man is twofold.
 He cannot learn truths which are too complicated,
 he forgets truths which are too simple.  -- Rebecca West
Did St. Francis preach to the birds?  Whatever for?
 If he really liked birds he would have done better to
 preach to the cats.  -- Rebecca West
There is no such thing as conversation.  It is an illusion.
 There are intersecting monologues, that is all. 
 -- Rebecca West
Humor is a social lubricant that helps us get over
 some of the bad spots.   -- Steve Allen
Without laughter, life on our planet would be intolerable.
 So important is laughter that societies highly reward those
 who make a living by inducing laughter in others.  
 --  Steve Allen
One of the nice things about problems is that a good many
 of them do not exist except in our imagination.
 -- Steve Allen
We are entitled to make almost any reasonable assumption,
 but should resist making conclusions until evidence
 requires that we do so.  -- Steve Allen
You're either part of the solution or you're part of the 
 problem.  -- Eldridge Cleaver
I think the next best thing to solving a problem  is finding
 some humor in it.  -- Frank A Clark
We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities
 brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
 -- John W Gardner
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognise a
  problem before it becomes an emergency.
 -- Arnold H Glasgow
If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem,
 but a fact not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.
 -- Shimon Peres
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly
 intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
 -- Dr Laurence J Peter
A human being must have occupation, if he or she is not to
 become a nuisance in the world.
 -- Dorothy L Sayers
A philosophy is characterised more by the formulation of 
 its problems than by its solution of them.
 -- Susanne K Langer
Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were
 always there.  -- Susanne K Langer
We must talk about poverty because people insulated
 by their own comfort lose sight of it.  -- Dorothy Day
Poverty is the worst form of violence.
 -- Mohandas Gandhi
The most common cause of fear of old age is
 associated with the possibility of poverty.
 -- Napoleon Hill
It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness;
 poverty and wealth have both failed.
 -- Frank McKinney “Kin” Hubbard
There is something about poverty that smells like death.
 Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a
 dry season and rotting around the feet.
 -- Zora Neale Hurston
The want of goods is easily repaired, but the poverty of
 the soul is irreparable.  -- Michael de Montaigne
You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
 -- P J O'Rourke
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy 
 whose teeth are sound.  The poverty stricken man makes
 the same mistake about the rich man.
 -- George Bernard Shaw
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
 -- Cicero
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
 -- Cicero
We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.
 -- Cicero
Too much liberty leads both men and nations to slavery.
 -- Cicero
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
 instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
 -- Judy Garland
Remember always that you not only have the right to be
 an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
 -- Eleanor Roosevelt
We can't reach old age by another man's road.
 -- Mark Twain
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
 -- Norman Cousins
Death is not the greatest loss in life.
 The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
 -- Norman Cousins
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together;
 at the door where the latter enters, the former makes
 its exit.  -- Alexander Dumas
Men's minds are raised to the level of the women
 with whom they associate.  -- Alexander Dumas
All human wisdom is summed up in these two words
 Wait and Hope.  -- Alexander Dumas
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.
 These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along
 life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
 -- Joseph Addison
A smile is the shortest distance between two people.
 -- Victor Borge
A smile is a curve that sets everything right.
 -- Phyllis Diller
If you do not smile, you are judged lacking in a 
 pleasing personality and you need to have a pleasing
 personality if you want to sell your services, whether
 as a waitress, a salesman, or a physician.  -- Erich Fromm
If you're not using your smile, you're like a man with
 a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook.
 -- Les Giblin
A smile is the light in your window that tells others
 that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
 -- Denis Waitley
We only think when we are confronted with a problem.
 -- John Dewey
The self is not something ready-made, but something
 in continuous formation through choice of action.
 -- John Dewey
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism;
 if our government is to function, it must have dissent.
 -- Henry Steel Commager
A free society cherishes nonconformity.  It knows that
 from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come
 many of the great ideas of freedom.  Free society must
 fertilise the soil in which non-conformity and dissent
 and individualism can grow.  -- Henry Steele Commager
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by
 those who hear it.  -- William James
Who dares to say that he alone has found the truth?
 -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Discussion is impossible with someone who claims not
 to speak the truth, but already to possess it.
 -- Romain Rolland
If you add to the truth, you subtract from it.
 -- The Talmud
Don't be reckless with other people's hearts, and don't
 put up with people that are reckless with yours.
 -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody
 wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.
 -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Whenever you see a successful business,
 someone made a courageous decision.  -- Peter Drucker
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he had the courage
 to lose sight of the shore.      -- Andre Gide
The little I know, I owe to my ignorance.   -- Sacha Guitry
The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner
 for marrying you in the first place.  -- Sacha Guitry
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you, 
 but tries to by just as charming as if she weren't.  -- Sacha Guitry
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future,
 concentrate the mind on the present moment.  -- The Dalai Lama
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall
 of sleep between the two.    -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learn from the past, set vivid detailed goals for the future, and
 live in the only moment of time over which you have any control,
 now.    -- Denis Waitley
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
 -- James Reston
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else
 expects of you.    -- Henry Ward Beecher
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the
 source from which self-respect springs.    -- Joan Didion
I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for
 everything I do.   -- Robert A Heinlein
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
 -- Stanislaw Lec
You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what
 you do not say.  -- Martin Luther
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most
 far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.
 -- Stanley Milgram
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground,
 put some responsibility on their shoulders.
 -- Abigail Van Buren
Sports do not build character.
 They reveal it.                  -- John Wooden
Ability is a poor man's wealth.   -- John Wooden
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone
 who will never be able to repay you.     -- John Wooden
Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.
 -- John Wooden
Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.  -- John Wooden
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
 -- John Wooden
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorises you to say disagreeable
 things to your intimates.  The nearer you come into relation with a
 person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.
 -- Sir Oliver Wendell Holmes
Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.
 -- Nicholas Chamfort
If your heart has peace, nothing can disturb you.
 -- The Dalai Lama
If you haven't any charity in your heart,
 you have the worst kind of heart trouble.  -- Bob Hope
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something
 we do not understand.  --Frank Herbert
Seek freedom and become the captive of your desires,
 seek discipline and find your liberty.   -- Frank Herbert
When religion and politics travel in the same cart,
 the riders believe nothing can stand in their way.  -- Frank Herbert
You should never be in the company of anyone with whom
 you would not want to die.  -- Frank Herbert
Neckties strangle clear thinking.
 -- Lin Yutang
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless
 manner, you have learned how to live.   -- Lin Yutang
Hope is like a road in the country; there never was a road, but when
 many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
 -- Lin Yutang
Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.
 -- Lin Yutang
The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have,
 and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.
 -- Lin Yutang
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble
 art of leaving things undone.    -- Lin Yutang
A problem is a problem only when you label it a problem.
 -- Marv Marshall
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have
 ended up where I intended to be.   Douglas Adams
One recognises one's course by discovering the paths 
 that stray from it.   -- Albert Camus
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't
 lead anywhere.  -- Frank A Clark
How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if
 you take the road to another man's city?  -- Thomas Merton
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can
 walk with love and reverence.  -- Henry David Thoreau
All in the dark we grope along, And if we go amiss, We learn
 at least which path is wrong, And there is gain in this.
 -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I'm a salami writer.  I try to write a good salami, but salami is
 salami.  You can't sell it as caviar.  -- Stephen King
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
 -- Stephen King
We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
 -- Stephen King
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly,
 caught in the web of duty.  -- Stephen King
The most important things are the hardest to say....
 because words diminish them.    -- Stephen King
The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that
 it can only mean one thing.  -- Ronnie Barker
The toilets at a local police station have been stolen.
 Police say they have nothing to go on.  -- Ronnie Barker
The man who invented the zip fastener was today honoured with a
 lifetime peerage.  He'll now be known as the Lord of the Flies.
 -- Ronnie Barker
Don't follow a path, make one.           -- Dr Mardy Grothe
Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he who finds himself,
 loses his misery.   -- Matthew Arnold
Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you
 as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.
 -- Richard Bach
People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness.
 Just because they're not on your road, doesn't mean they've gotton
 lost.        -- H Jackson Brown, Jr
At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful
 yearning for union with one's lost self.   -- Brendan Francis
By losing your goal, you have lost your way.  -- Kahlil Gibran
Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself,
 loses his misery.                 -- Matthew Arnold
Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you
 as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.
                                                 -- Richard Bach
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
 Just because they're not on your road, doesn't mean they've 
 gotton lost.                  -- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful
 yearning for union with one's lost self.
                                           -- Brendan Francis
It is the ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have
 lost our way.                    -- Rollo May
The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost;
 to be everywhere is nowhere.
                                     -- Michael de Montaigne
Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the
 world, do we begin to find ourselves.
                                      -- Henry David Thoreau
Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases,
 money makes counterfeit men.
                                         -- Sydney J Harris
It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever
 recognising that their feelings toward other people are largely
 determined by their feelings toward themselves.
                                              -- Sydney J Harris
When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others,
 you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain
 we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we
 feel within us.                                -- Sydney J Harris
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it atthe same time;
 what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
                                                -- Sydney J Harris
I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.
                                                  -- Robert Benchley
Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.
                                           -- Han Suyin
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
                                                 -- Malcolm Forbes
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing
 your temper or your self-confidence.                      -- Robert Frost
The highest result of education is tolerance.
                                             -- Helen Keller
My own education operated by a succession of eye-openers
 each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.
                                         -- George Bernard Shaw
Education is not the filling of a pail, 
 but the lighting of a fire.
                             -- William Butler Yeats
Life is a dead-end street.
                             -- H L Menchen
When women kiss it always reminds me of prize-fighters
 shaking hands.              -- H L Menchen
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 Menchen
He who lives in harmony with himself
 lives in harmony with the universe.   -- Marcus Aurelius
First keep the peace within yourself,
 then you can also bring peace to others.  -- Thomas a Kempis
Quiet minds can't be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune
 or misfortune at their own private pace, like a close during a
 thunderstorm.                           -- Robert Louis Stevenson
The here and now is all we have and if we play it right
 it's all we'll need.                         -- Ann Richards
I get a lot of cracks about my hair,
 mostly from men who don't have any.  -- Ann Richards
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown again into flame by an
 encounter with another human being.  Each of us owes deepest thanks
 to those who have rekindled this inner light.  
                                             -- Albert Schweitzer
So somthing for somebody every day for which you do not get paid.
                                            -- Albert Schweitzer
Any powerful idea is absolutely fascinating, 
 and absolutely useless unless we choose to use it.
                               -- Richard Bach
Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth.
 One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him.
                                   -- William Ellery Channing
The key to every man is his thought.  he can only be reformed by
 showing him a new idea which commands his own.
                                           -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every now and then a man's mind is stretch by a new idea,
 and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
                         -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be
 moved unless we have already half-thought of it ourselves.
                                               -- Mignon McLaughlin
If you want to have good ideas, you must have many ideas.
 Most of them will be wrong and what you have to learn is
 which ones to throw away.              -- Linus Pauling
In the same way as the tree bears the same fruit year after year,
 but each time new fruit, all lasting valuable ideas in thinking
 must always be reborn.                     -- Albert Schweitzer
Life is not an easy matter.  You cannot live through it without
 falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a
 great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness,
 above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.    -- Leon Trotsky
It's not the men in my life that counts; it's the life in my men.
                                                    -- Mae West
It is better to be looked over than overlooked.     -- Mae West
Your're never too old to become younger.            -- Mae West
Sex is an emotion in motion.                        -- Mae West
Be so true to thyself as thou not be false to others.  -- Francis Bacon
The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you
 but yourself.                     -- Rita Mae Brown
It is better to be hated for what you are,
 than to be loved for something you are not.    --  Andrew Gide
Follow the grain in your own wood.       -- Howard Thurman
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion,
 rather than boredom.                       -- Thomas Carlyle
The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.
                                            -- William Feather
Most people would succeed in small things,
 if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
                                         -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
                                          -- Thomas a Kempis
We first make our habits,
 and then our habits make us.             -- John Dryden
Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.   -- John Dryden
Any plenty makes us poor.             -- John Dryden
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
                                         -- John Dryden
Beware the fury of a patient man.        -- John Dryden
If you want a baby, have a new one.
 Don't baby the old one.      -- Jessamyn West
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes;
 it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them
 for having witnessed your own.  -- Jessamyn West
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike.
 We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
                                -- Honore de Balzac
There are some people so addicted to exaggeration
 that they can't tell the truth without lying.
                                      -- Josh Billings
All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because
 they do exaggerate.                          -- Nicholas Chamfort
To exaggerate is to weaken.    -- Jean-Francois de La Harpe
Some so speak in exaggeration and superlatives that we need to make
 a large discount from their statements before we can come at their
 real meaning.                              -- Tryon Edwards
I never exaggerate.  I just remember big.
                                         -- Chi Chi Rodriguez
You mustn't exaggerate, young man.
 That's always a sign that your argument is weak.
                                       -- Bertrand Russell
Love is the extremely difficult realisation
 that something other than oneself is real.
                                -- Iris Murdoch
Jealously is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins.
                                          -- Iris Murdoch
Philosophy means looking at things which one takes for granted
 and suddenly seeing that they are very odd indeed.
                                          -- Iris Murdoch
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.
                                          -- Iris Murdoch
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body
 and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
                                              -- Iris Murdoch
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly
 taken-for-granted relationship.              -- Iris Murdoch
To get along with me, don't increase my tension.
                                       -- Ty Cobb
Justice is like a train that's nearly always late.
                           -- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Life is like a rainbow who also includes black.
                             -- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht.
 You can throw everything into it, beets, carrots, cabbage, onions,
 everything you want.  What's important is the result,
 the taste of the borscht.          -- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
I do not like poems that resemble hay, compressed into a geometrically perfect cube.
 I like it when the hay, unkempt, uncombed, with dry berries mixed in it, thrown
 together gaily and freely, bounces along atop some truck, and more, if there are
 some lovely and healthy lasses atop the hay, and better yet, if the branches catch
 at the hay and some of it tumbles to the ground.         -- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
 courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
                                     -- Winston Churchill
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant
 and ask a few questions.             -- Peter Drucker
If you don't have the facts and knowledge required, simply listen.
 When word gets out that you can listen when others tend to talk,
 you will be treated as a sage.                   -- Edward Koch
We should all do something to right the wrongs that we see
 and not just complain about them.    -- Jacqueline Kennedy
There are two types of women: those who want power in the world,
 and those who want power in the bedroom.  -- Jacqueline Kennedy
Love's a disease.
 But curable.          -- Rose Macaulay
Life without a friend is death without a witness.
                            -- Rose Macaulay
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
                                        -- Aesop
Your own soul is nourished when you are kind;
 it is destroyed when you are cruel.
          -- The Book of Proverbs 11:17 (The Living Bible version)
This is my simple religion.  
 There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy.
 Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
                         -- The 16th Dalai Lama
It is a little embarrassing that after forty-five years of research and
 study, the best advice I can give to people is to be a little kinder to\
 each other.                                         -- Aldous Huxley
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
                                      -- Dr Samuel Johnson
Kindness gives birth to kindness.     -- Sophocles
All values in this world are more or less questionable,
 but the most important thing in life is human kindness.
                                -- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
                                          -- Don Marquis
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you;
 but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
                                           -- Don Marquis
Ours is a world where people don't know what they want
 and are willing to go through hell to get it.
                                            -- Don Marquis
The two most compelling forces in the history of the world have been
 the love of power and the power of love.    -- Dr Mardy Grothe
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what
 happiness consists of.                  -- Albert Camus
Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
                                             -- Chuang-Tzu
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyong our grasp,
 but which if you will sit down quiety, may alight upon you.
                                                      -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
                                                       -- Eric Hoffer
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness;
 it is generally the by-product of other activities.
                                                     -- Aldous Huxley

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.
 It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity
 to a worthy purpose.                  -- Helen Keller
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable
 part of happiness.                         -- Betrand Russell
If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we'd have a pretty good time.
                                                   -- Edith Wharton
There is always a right and a wrong way, and the wrong way always
 seems the more reasonable.                       -- George Moore
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and
 returns home to find it.                   -- George Moore
Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something,
 but no one does what he sets out to do.         -- George Moore
Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
                                         -- Rita Mae Brown
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
                                        -- Albert Einstein
The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
                              -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
The real tragedy of life is not being limited to one talent,
 but in failing to use that one talent.    -- Edgar Watson Howe
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal.
 The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
                                               -- Benjamin Mays
There are two tragedies in life:
 one is to lose your heart's desire, the other is to gain it.
                                           -- George Bernard Shaw
One recognises one's course by discovering the paths
 that stray from it.                         --Albert Camus
You will never be happy if you keep searching for what happiness consists of.
 You will never live if you keep looking for the meaning of life 
 without living it.                          -- Albert Camus
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man
 and the life he leads?                      -- Albert Camus
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty 
 in the morning feeling just plain terrible.         -- Jean Kerr
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time
 in a shop window.  You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't
 always go with everything else in the house.                  -- Jean Kerr
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets.
 It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
                                                      -- Jean Kerr
Even though a number of people have tried,
 no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.    -- Jean Kerr
Success has made failures of many men.             -- Cindy Adams
Success has ruined many a man.    -- Benjamin Franklin
Success is a lousy teacher.  
 It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.     -- Bill Gates
Success and failure are both difficult to endure.
 Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel,
 meditation, depression, neurosis and suicide.  
 With failure, comes failure.                     -- Joseph Heller
Nothing fails like success when you rely on it too much.
                                               -- Arnold Toynbee
Success is a poison that should only be taken late in life
 and then only in small doses.                  --Anthony Trollope
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living 
 wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.
                                                 -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold,
 persistent experimentation.  It is commonsense to take a method and try it:
 If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.  But above all, try something.
                                                 -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
When you get to the end of your rope,
 tie a knot and hang on.             -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird
 and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.  
                                       -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that
 men seek power over others, only to lose it over themselves.
                                            -- Barbara W Tuchman
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.    -- Barbara W Tuchman
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
                                              -- Peter Hein
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, 
 when looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
                                                             -- Poul Anderson
You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.
                                                      -- Eldridge Cleaver
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding
 some homour in it.                          -- Frank A Clark
We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities 
 brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
                                               -- John W Gardner
One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognise a problem
 before it becomes an emergency.                 -- Arnold H Glasgow
If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact not to be
 solved, but to be coped with over time.              -- Shimon Peres
Problems are the price you pay for progress.   Brach Rickey
A passage is not plain English if we are obliged to read it twice
 to find out what it means.                 --  Dorothy L Sayers
Most new discoveries are suddently-seen things that were always there.
                                                  -- Susanne K Langer
In my next life I want to live my life backwards. You start out dead and get that
 out of the way.  Then you wake up in an old people's home feeling bettery every day.
 You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension, and then when you
 start work, you get a gold watch and a party on your first day.  You work for 40 years
 until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement.  You party, drink alcohol, and are
 generally promiscuous, then you are ready for high school. You then go to primary 
 school, you become a kid, you play. You have no responsibilites, you become a baby 
 until you are born. Then you spend your last 9 months floating in luxurious spa-like
 conditions with central heating and room service on tap, larger quarters every day 
 and then Voila! You finish off as an orgasm!   -- Woody Allen
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
                                                               -- Abraham H Maslow
TENDER SUBMISSION:
 A poker game in which the losing hand wins.
TENDER SUM:
 A wild guess carried out to two decimal places.
SUCCESSFUL TENDERER:
 A contractor who is wondering what he left out.
ARCHITECT:
 A man who knows very little about a great deal
 and keeps knowing less and less about more and more
 until he knows practically nothing about everything.
CONSULTING ENGINEER:
 A man who knows a great deal about very little
 and goes on knowing more and more about less and less
 until he knows practically everything about nothing.
QUANTITY SURVEYORS:
 People who go in after the war is lost and bayonet the wounded.
LAWYERS:
 People who go in after the Quantity Surveyors and strip the bodies.
COST PLAN ESTIMATE:
 The cost of construction in heaven.
MANAGEMENT CONTRACT:
 The technique for losing your shirt under perfect control.
COMPLETION DATE:
 The point at which liquidated damages begin.
LIQUIDATED DAMAGES:
 A penalty for failing to achieve the impossible.
SUB-CONTRACTOR:
 A gambler who never gets to shuffle, cut or deal.
CONTRACTOR:
 A man starts out knowing practically everything,
 but ends up knowing nothing due to his association with
 Architects and Consulting Engineers.
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
                                      -- John Barrymore
A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat:
 he stores up a lot of poison.
                                       -- Truman Capote
Dreams nourish the soul just as food nourishes the body.
                                        -- Paulo Coelho
When you cease to dream, you cease to live.
                                        -- Malcolm Forbes
It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled,
 but it is a calamity not to dream.
                                    -- Benjamin E Mays
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which
 escape those who dream only by night.
                                      -- Edgar Allan Poe
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
 and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined,
 he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
                                 -- Henry David Thoreau
Dreams come true; without that possibility, 
 nature would not incite us to have them.
                            -- John Updike
Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
                        -- Friedrich von Schiller
There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.
                                         -- Scott Adams
Consultants have credibility because they are not
 dumb enough to work at your company.
                                   -- Scott Adams
Engineers like to solve problems.
 If there are no problems handily available,
 they will create their own problems.
                             -- Scott Adams
All great ideas look like bad ideas to people who are losers.
 It's always good to test a new idea with known losers
 to make sure they don't like it.             -- Scott Adams
Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do
 irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs.
 This is the principle behind lotteries, dating and religion.
                                              -- Scott Adams
How little has situation to do with happiness.
                              -- Fanny Burney
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
                                    -- Eric Hoffer
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
                                                      -- Eric Hoffer
When people are free to do as they please,
 they usually imitate each other.
                                    -- Eric Hoffer
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us
 to count our blessings.
                                          -- Eric Hoffer
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
                                                    -- William Feather
All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.
                                       -- Sally Ride
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
                                -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Erotica is using a feather;pornography is using the whole chicken.
                                                -- Isabel Allende
They say such nice things about people at their funerals
 that it makes me sad to realise that I'm going to miss mine
 by just a few days.                     -- Garrison Keillor
Never underestimate your power to change yourself;
 never overestimate your power to change others.
                                -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There is perhaps no surer mark of folly,
 than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.
                                               -- Henry Fielding
I wanted to change the world.  But I have found that the only thing
 one can be sure of changing is one's self.
                                                   -- Aldous Huxley
In youth we run into difficulties,
 in old age difficulties run into us.
          -- Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw)
The greater the obstacle, the greater the glory in overcoming it;
 and difficulties are but the maids of honor to set off the virtue.
                                                     -- Moliere
If there were no difficulties there would be no success;
 if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to achieved.
                                                    -- Samuel Smiles
It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
                                                 -- Gertrude Stein
Everybody knows if you are too careful, you are so occupied in being
 careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
                                                   -- Gertrude Stein
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn
 from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their
 apparent disinclination to do so.                -- Douglas Adams
A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in 
 on the experience.                           -- Elbert Hubbard
I like to think of my behaviour in the sixties as a learning experience.
 Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a learning
 experience.  It makes me feel less stupid.
                                                       -- P.J. O'Rourke
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
                                          -- George Santayana
You can get all A's and still flunk life.
                                          -- Walker Percy
Life is a mystery, love is a delight.
 Therefore I take it as axiomatic that one should settle for
 nothing less than the infinite mystery and the infinite delight.
                                                 -- Walker Percy
Motivation is a fire from within, 
 If someone else tries to light that fire under you,
 chances are it will burn very briefly.
                                          -- Stephen Covey
Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul,
 impossibilities vanish.
                             -- Jean de la Fontaine
When you choose the lesser of two evils,
 always remember that it is still an evil.
                                 -- Max Lerner
To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also
 against the hurt of others.    
                                                 -- Max Lerner
The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much
 but that you change so little.
                                           -- Max Lerner
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover
 the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
                                                      -- Max Lerner
Men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal,
 but by the grandness of effort involved in getting there 
 or failing to get there.                   -- Max Lerner
Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel,
 the greatest triumph of what we call civilisation was the 
 domestication of the human male.
                                             -- Max Lerner
It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues
 of compassion and tolerance. 
                                               --Lhamo Thondup
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
 If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
                                   -- Lhamo Thondup
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience
 is the most difficult period in one's life.
                                       -- Lhamo Thondup
Reason well from the beginning and then there will never be any
 need to look back with confusion and doubt.
                                               -- Lhamo Thondup
This is my simple religion.  There is no need for temples;
 no need for complicated philosophy.  Our own brain, our own heart
 is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
                                                  -- Lhamo Thondup
Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.
                                             -- Jean Cocteau
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.
                                                -- Jean Cocteau
What is Style?
 For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things.
 According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.
                                                      -- Jean Cocteau
Don't offend the people who count and don't count the people who offend.
                                                         -- Amy Brennan
The people in our lives are like flowering plants;
 They need regular watering and the occasional applications of nutrients.
Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
                                              -- Lillian Hellman
Every man is a potential genius until he does something.
                                      -- Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
A man never knows what a fool he is until he is imitated by one.
                                   -- Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
A committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.
                                   -- Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Never impart your humor to the humorless.
 They will use it in evidence against you.
                      -- Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in
 possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that
 is in the world.                                   -- Max Born
Say not, I have found the truth, but rather, I have found a truth.
                                                 -- Kahlil Gibran
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
                                                         -- Eric Hoffer
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases 
 on the same theme.                                -- Pablo Picasso
Life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as
 opposed to a surprise party.    
                                                   -- Jimmy Buffett
Life is like a dog-sled team.
 If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
                                    -- Lewis Grizzard
Life is a great big canvas and you should throw all the paint
 on it you can.            
                              -- Danny Kaye
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
                                    -- John W Gardner
Life is like a movie, since there aren't any commercial breaks,
 you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.
                                              -- Garry Trudeau
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends
 is the source of all religious fanaticism.
                                                 -- Reinhold Niebuhr
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more
 I live.  I rejoice in life for its own sake.  Life is no brief candle to me.
 It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment;
 and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to
 future generations.                                 -- George Bernard Shaw
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out
 in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a
 superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent
 planet.  The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.  I shall not waste
 my days in trying to prolong them.  I shall use my time.          -- Jack London
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the
 length of it.  I want to have lived the width of it as well.
                                                   -- Diane Ackerman
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
                                          -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
                                                    -- C.S. Lewis
The purpose of life is not to be happy, but to matter, to be productive,
 to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
                                                            -- Leo Rosten
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.
                                          -- Henry David Thoreau
Dare to be yourself.
                         -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
                                       -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
                                       -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
                                       -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am
 persecuted whenever I am contradicted.
                                        -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The biggest obstacles are not the ones we encounter,
 but the ones we erect and put in our own way.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
                                                  -- Arthur C Clarke
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge
 faster than society gathers wisdom.
                                                       -- Isaac Asimov
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog.
 The man will be there to feed the dog.  The dog will be there to keep
 the man from touching the equipment.
                                                    -- Warren G Bennis
We've arranged a civilisation in which most crucial elements profoundly
 depend on science and technology.  We have also arranged things so that
 almost no one understands science and technology.  This is a 
 prescription for disaster.                                -- Carl Sagan
We build too many walls and not enough bridges.
                                                -- Sir Isaac Newton
Alimony:  The Bill You Get, for the Thrill You Got.
                                                -- Lewis Grizzard
It is easier to believe than to doubt.
                                           -- Gene Fowler
Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both
 before we commit ourselves to either. 
                                        -- Aesop
Seek the company of those who seek the truth and run away from those
 who have found it.
                                                     -- Vaclav Havel
It is precisely the stupidest people who are most sincere in their
 mistaken beliefs.  
                                        -- Norman Angell
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.  
 It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
                                                  -- Mark Twain
It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what they don't know,
 and the less a person knows, the more sure they are that they know
 everything.                         
                                                        -- Joyce Cary
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish.
 Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head.
                                                   -- Eric Hoffer
The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.
                                             -- Mignon McLaughlin
The greener the ignorance, the greater the dogmatism.
                                               -- William Osler
Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one
 remembers it in order to recount it.
                                      --Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage
 is not happiness, but stability.
                                       -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
                                               -- William Hazlitt
We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are
 dissatisfied with ourselves.
                                                 -- William Hazlitt
Vices are often habits rather than passions.
                                              -- Antoine de Rivarol
Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
                                           -- Antoine de Rivarol
If it wasn't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
                                                -- Rodney Dangerfield
I'm taking Viagra and drinking prune juice,
 I don't know if I'm coming or going.
                                                -- Rodney Dangerfield
My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want
 a second opinion.  He said, “Okay, you're ugly too”.
                                                -- Rodney Dangerfield
I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me.
 He said I was being ridiculous – everyone hasn't met me yet.
                                                             -- Rodney Dangerfield
We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations – 
 we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.
                                                                      -- Rodney Dangerfield
Humans beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they
 are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
                                                                      -- Laurens van der Post
In the name of noble purposes men have committed unspeakable acts
 of cruelty against one another.
                                                                  -- J William Fulbright
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives
 but have only one course of action.
                                                                      -- Frank Herbert
What mean and cruel things men do for the love of God.
                                                      -- W Somerset Maugham
Whenever 'A' attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon 'B'.
 'A' is most likely a scoundrel.
                                                           -- H L Mencken
Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
                                                           -- Gail Sheehy
No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than
 we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
                                                 -- Gail Sheehy
If we don't change, we don't grow.
 If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
 Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
 It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns,
 safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in,
 relationships that have lost their meaning.
                                                                    -- Gail Sheehy
Don't be afraid to give your best to what are seemingly small jobs.
 Every time you conquer one, it makes you that much stronger.
 If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
                                                              -- Dale Carnegie
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.       -- Duke Ellington
Always do your best. 
 What you plant now, you will harvest later.           -- Og Mandino
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing
 is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
                                          -- Eleanor Roosevelt
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life,
 but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place
 for the next moment.                           -- Oprah Winfrey
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally,
 in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
 They make very small use of their possible consciousness,
 and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who,
 out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of
 using and moving only his little finger.     -- William James
One of the rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can.
                                  -- Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw)
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
                                         -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.  -- Edward R Murrow
One major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.
                                          -- Edward R Murrow
A great many people think they are thinking
 when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
                                -- Edward R Murrow
The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.
                                              -- Havelock Ellis
You were born an original, so don't die a copy.
Read, every day, something no one else is reading
 Think, every day, something no one else is thinking
 Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do.
 It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
                                            -- Christopher Morley
It is better to be hated for what you are
 than to be loved for something you are not.  -- Andre Gide
Society is always trying in some way to grind us down 
 to a single flat surface. 
                             -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
 Don;t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of
 other people's thinking.                          -- Steve Jobs
For if man is not faithful to his own individuality,
 he cannot be loyal to anything.
                                    -- Claude McKay
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual,
 you have an obligation to be one.              -- Eleanor Roosevelt
The man who lets a leader prescribe his course,
 is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.
                                   -- Ayn Rand
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate
 from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertisised
 by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.
                                             -- Charlotte Bronte
Misery generates hate.          -- Charlotte Bronte
The secret of happiness is not found in seeking more,
 but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
                                             -- Socrates
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
 A terrible thing: no one to blame. 
                                     -- Erica Jong
Each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat
 and sees the wholeness of the other person's.
                                        -- Erica Jong
If children grew up according to early indications,
 We should have nothing but geniuses.
                                     -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you are not failing now and again,
 it's a sign you're playing it safe.   -- Woody Allen
If you want to keep on learning,
 you must keep on risking failure all your life.
                              -- John W Gardner
If you want to increase your success rate,
 double your failure rate.
                               -- Thomas Watson, Sr.
If ignorance is bliss,
 why aren't there more happy people in the world?
                                  -- Stephen Fry
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
                                    --Charles F Kettering
If you want to kill any idea in the world,
 get a committee working on it.     -- Charles F Kettering
Pay attention to your enemies
 for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
                                   -- Antisthenes
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him
 free from rust in the moveable parts of his mind.
                                         -- Gene Fowler
Enemies are so stimulating.
                           -- Katharine Hepburn
I choose my friends for their good looks,
 my acquaintances for their good character,
 and my enemies for their intellects.
 A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
                                           -- Oscar Wilde
Not every great man is a grand human being.
                            -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Where would the power of women be were it not for the vanity of men.
                                      -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Even a stopped clock is right twice every day.
 After some years, it can boast of a long series of successes.
                                     -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Parents forgive their children least readily
 for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
                    -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Never expect women to be sincere so long as they are
 educated to think that their first aim in life is - to please.
                                 -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Never trust anything that can think for itself
 if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
    -- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
I would rather be in the marina wishing I was out of the water
 than out on the water wishing I was in the marina!
                                            -- George Hastings
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times
 surprise a man and lay him open.    -- Francis Bacon
My greatest strength as a consultant
 is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
                          -- Peter Drucker
The only questions that really matter are the ones
 you ask yourself.             -- Ursula K Le Guin
It is better to know some of the questions
 than all of the answers.                 -- James Thurber
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
                                       -- Frank Zappa
Music is the only religion that delivers the goods.
                                    -- Frank Zappa
Government is the Entertainment Division
 of the military-industrial complex.    -- Frank Zappa
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
                               -- Booker T Washington
I'm happy where I am.  Somebody said one time,
 Success is getting what you want and
 happiness is wanting what you get.
 I got that house fifty years ago; I love it.
                           -- Warren Buffett
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
                            -- Warren Buffett
You only find out who is swimming naked
 when the tide goes out.    -- Warren Buffett
You only have to do a very few things right in your life
 so long as you don't do too many thing wrong.
                                       -- Warren Buffett
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic
 that likes to make easy things difficult.
                                   -- Warren Buffett
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does,
 I guess you do have a problem.      -- Richard Bach
If what you have done is unjust,
 you have not succeeded.       -- Thomas Carlyle
If you can put the question,
 Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?
 then you are responsible.   -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was "thank you"
 that would suffice.             -- Meister (Johannes) Eckart
If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself,
 you have not planned enough.            -- Edward Everett Hale
If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read.
 But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed.
                                                  -- Lily Tomlin
Remember, we're all in this alone.        -- Lily Tomlin
The best mind-altering drug is truth.      -- Lily Tomlin
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. -- Lily Tomlin
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win,
 you're still a rat.                   -- Lily Tomlin
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
             -- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The most important thing in communication
 is to hear what isn't being said.  
                                  -- Peter F Drucker
The notes I handle no better than many pianists.
 But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.
                                                    -- Artur Schnabel
A man's mind is known by the company it keeps.
                                             --James Russell Lowell
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.
                                            -- James Russell Lowell
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
                                       -- James Russell Lowell
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
                         -- Franklin D Roosevelt
A manager is an assistant to his men.
                                     -- Thomas J Watson
Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights,
 the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard,
 the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.
                                            -- Peter Drucker
The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.
 The last is to say thank you.
 In between the two, the leader must become a servant.
                                        -- Max DuPree
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be
 what we know we could be.
                             -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To command is to server, nothing more and nothing less.
                                      -- Andre Malraux
True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers,
 not to enrich the leader.
                                       -- John C Maxwell
The man who exercises his intelligence in the presence of a woman
 may gain a friend or a wife, but never a sweetheart.
                                            -- George Jean Nathan
Never underestimate the ignorance of the audience.
                                         -- George Jean Nathan
My code of life and conduct is simply this:
 work hard, play to the allowable limit,
 didregard equally the good and bad opinion of others,
 never do a friend a dirty trick,
 eat and drink what you feel like when you fell like,
 never grow indigant over anything.
                                    -- George Jean Nathan
He only profits from praise who values criticism.
                                     -- Heinrich Heine
Experience is a good school.  But the fees are high.
                                    -- Heinrich Heine
The wedding march always reminds me of the music
 played when soldiers go into battle.
                                       -- Heinrich Heine
Matrimony: the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
                                                 -- Heinrich Heine
He who is not courageous enough to take risks
 will accomplish nothing in life.     -- Muhammad Ali
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, 
 and becomes nothing.  He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he
 simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.
                                                -- Leo F Buscagilia
To conquer without risk is to triumph without glory.
                                                   -- Pierre Corneille
If no one ever took risks,
 Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.
                                                 -- Neil Simon
He who risks and fails can be forgiven,
 he who never risks and never fails, is a failure in his whole being.
                                                     -- Paul Tillich
Keep your eyes on the stars,
 but remember to keep your feet on the ground.  --Theodore Roosevelt
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
                                                    -- Theodore Roosevelt
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your
 troubles, you wouldn't sit for a month.         -- Theodore Roosevelt
In any moment of decision
 the best thing you can do is the right thing,
 the next best thing is the wrong thing,
 and the worst thing you can do is nothing.  
                                               -- Theodore Roosevelt
No people ever yet benefited by riches
 if their prosperity corrupted their virtue.   -- Theodore Roosevelt
The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men
 to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from
 meddling with them while they do it.    
                                              -- Theodore Roosevelt
There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart
 and that is softness of head.     
                                 -- Theodore Roosevelt
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
                                          -- Danny Kaye
Be careful what you set your heart upon
 for it will surely be yours.            -- James Baldwin
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted,
 but getting what you have, which once you have got it,
 you may be smart enough to se,e is what you would have
 wanted had you known.                -- Garrison Keillor  
Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters in life
 begin when you get what you want.             -- Irving Kristol
I was never ruined by twice,
 once when I lost a lawsuit, and once when I won one.
                                         -- Voltaire
Bureaucracy is the rule of nobody.
                                   -- Hannah Arendt
In order to go on living, one must try to escape
 the death involved in perfection.       
                                       -- Hannah Arendt
Abstaining is favourable, both to the head and the pocket.
                                        -- Horace Greeley
I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere.
                                        -- William Congreve
Courtship to marriage is a very witty prologue
 to a very dull play.              
                                      -- William Congreve
The difficulty in life is the choice.
                                      -- George Moore
There is nothing so consoling as to find one's neighbour's
 troubles are at least as great as one's own.
                                             -- George Moore
There's always a right and a wrong way,
 and the wrong way always seems the more reasonable.
                                                  -- George Moore
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs
 and returns home to find it.    
                                        -- George Moore
As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions,
 as you spend money, make friends, make commitments,
 you are creating a piece of art called your life.
                              -- Mary Catherine Bateson
Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
                                            -- John W Gardner
People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.
                                       --W Somerset Maughan
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary.
 It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body.
 It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
                                     -- Winston Churchill
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that
 would do them good to the praise that deceives them.
                        -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, 
 and because there are few who can endure frank criticism
 without being stung by it, those who venture to criticise
 us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake
 to wound or offend a man for his own good is to have a
 healthy love for him.                -- Michel de Montaigne
Most of us would rather by hurt by flattery
 than helped by criticism.                -- Dr Laurence J Peter
Women in general want to be loved for what they are
 and men for what they accomplish.
                                    -- Theodor Reik
The repressed memory is like a noisy intruder being thrown out of the
 concert hall.  You can throw him out, but he will bang on the door
 and continue to disturb the concert.  The analyst opens the door and
 says "If you promise to behave yourself, you can come back in".
                                                      -- Theodor Reik
You know who you are inside, but people outside see something different.
 You can choose to become the image, and let go of who you aare,
 or continue as you are and feel phony when you play the image.
                                                        -- Richard Bach
Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be,
 because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose,
 and then where are you?       
                                                       -- Fanny Brice
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself
 and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered
 as to which may be the true.
                                           -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display
 qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which
 he cannot keep.
                                            -- Dr Samuel Johnson
We are so accustomed to wearing a disguise before others
 that eventually we are unable to recognise ourselves.
                         -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or
 strange that self may prove to be.
                                          -- May Sarton
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about
 what we pretend to be.
                                         -- Kurt Vonnegut
Never sell the bear's skin until you have killed the beast.
                                    -- Jean de la Fontaine
Insanity is hereditary; you get if from your children.
                                      -- Sam Levenson
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well
 is that they have a common enemy.
                                            -- Sam Levenson
You must learn from the mistakes of others,
 but you can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
                                                   -- Sam Levenson
Love at first sight is easy to understand, it's when two people
 have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes
 a miracle.
                                                -- Sam Levenson
When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted.
 Now I have to do what my boy wants.
 My problem is: When am I going to do what I want?
                                  -- Sam Levenson
Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him
 and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
                                      -- Sam Levenson
If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage,
 just listen to her talking to her little brother.
                                                -- Sam Levenson
It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder
 and said, "Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand,
 you'll find one at the end of your arm".
                                                 -- Sam Levenson
May God bless and keep you always
 May your wishes all come true
 May you always do for others
 And let others do for you
 May you build a ladder to the stars
 And climb on every rung
 May you stay forever young              -- Margaret Mead
As I approve of a youth who has something of the old man in him,
 so I am no less pleased with an old man who has something of the youth.
                                               -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
As long as you can see each day as a chance for something new to happen,
 something you never experienced before, you will stay young.
                                               -- Sarah "Sadie" Delaney
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows,
 let them not be written upon the heart.
 The spirit should not grow old.
                                  -- James A Garfield
To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
                                        -- Franklin Pierce Adams
You do not know what you can miss before you try.
                                           -- Franklin Pierce Adams
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days
 than a bad memory.              
                         -- Franklin Pierce Adams
Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them
 are the maddest of all.
                                                    -- Voltaire
As long as people believe in absurdities,
 they will continue to commit atrocities.          -- Voltaire
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
                                  -- Maurice Chevalier
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm.
 Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
                                                -- Golda Meir


I believe that one becomes stronger emotionally by taking life less personally.  
 If your employer criticises your report, don't take it personally.  
 Instead, find out what's needed and fix it.  
 If your girlfriend laughs at your tie, don't take it personally, 
 find another tie or find another girlfriend.
                                            -- Marilyn vos Savant
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid
 and deeds left undone. 
                                      -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
                                      -- John Barrymore
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
                                                 -- D H Lawrence
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back.
 Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it;
 it's only for wallowing in.
                                        -- Katherine Mansfield
The way to be nothing is to do nothing.
                                        -- Nathaniel Howe
Getting caught is the mother of invention.
                                          -- Robert Byrne
Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.
                                           -- Robert Byrne
The omission of good is no less reprehensive
 than the commission of evil.
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
                                                    -- Meister Eckhart
At the conclusion of a prolonged or difficult discussion,
 there's sometimes nothing better than simply asking the question,
 "Okay, so where are we in agreement and where do we disagree?"
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
                                       -- Mohandas K Gandhi
Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people
 of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without
 fear of retaliation.              -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
A man is but the product of his thoughts;
 what he thinks, he becomes.
                             -- Mohandas K Gandhi
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
                                         -- Soren Kierkegaard
Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings.
 It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing
 through one's mind.                                   -- Mark Twain
To think is to differ.          -- Clarence Darrow
I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would 
 have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
                                          -- Clarence Darrow
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents,
 and the second half by our children.
                                  -- Clarence Darrow
We take no delight in existence, 
 except when we are struggling for something.
                      -- Arthur Schopenhauer
There is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them.  
 But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your
 dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.                 
                                                          -- Paulo Coelho
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go
 if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
                                         -- Ronald Reagan
Government is like a baby.  An alimentary canal with a big appetite
 at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
                                                   -- Ronald Reagan
Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion.
                                         -- Philip Wylie
Religious freedom should work two ways:
 we should be free to practice the religion of our choice,
 but we must also be free from having someone else's 
 religion practiced on us.                 -- John Irving
If we're in a relationship,
 you have every right to offer me feedback.
 And I, in turn, have a responsibility to listen.
 After that, it gets complicated.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject
 something you done't know anything about.
                              -- Dr Wayne W Dyer
When ignorance gets started, it knows no bounds.
                                 -- Will Rogers
Some people drift through their entire lives.
 They do it one day at a time, one week at a time, one month at a time.
 The months run into years and span a life. It hapens so gradually
 that they are unaware of how their lives are slipping by them
 until it's too late.                                  -- Mary Kay Ash
People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life.
 I don't think that's what we're really seeking.
 I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive,
 so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have
 resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we
 actually feel the rapture of being alive.        -- Joseph Campbell
You can close your eyes to reality, 
 but not to memories.               --Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man,
 but they don't bte everybody.       -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
If you board the wrong train, it is no use
 running along the corridor in the other direction.
It is easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements
 compared with what we owe to the help of others.
Possessions delude the human heart into believing that they 
 provide security and a worry-free existence,
 but in truth they are the very cause of worry.
I choose my friends for their good looks,
 my acquaintances for their good characters,
 and my enemies for their intellects.
 A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
                                           -- Oscar Wilde
Pay attention to your enemies,
 for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
                                   -- Antisthenes
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary.
 It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body.
 It calls attention to an unhealth state of things.
                                    -- Winston Churchill
As a matter of self-preservation,
 a man needs good friends and ardent enemies,
 for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
                                        -- Diogenes Laertius
People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity.
                                          -- John Adams
If we had no Winter, the Spring would not be so pleasant;
 if we did not sometimes taste of adversity,
 prosperity would not be so welcome.  -- Anne Bradstreet
He that has never suffered adversity is but half acquainted
 with others, or with himself.      -- Charles Caleb Colton
Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming
 opposition, such as lifting weights, we develop our character
 muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.
                                            -- Stephen R Covey
Prosperity is a great teacher;
 adversity a greater.        -- William Hazlitt
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache
 carried with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
                                        -- Napoleon Hill
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile,
 and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.
                                         -- Lou Holtz
He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.
                                           -- Ben Jonson
The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.
                                   -- Jean de la Bruyere
Two persons cannot long be friends
 if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
                               -- Jean de la Bruyere
Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
                                        -- Tom Stoppard
Maturity is the ability:
 to do a job whether your're supervised or not;
 to finish a job once it's started;
 to carry money without spending it;
 and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.
                                 -- Abigail Van Buren
Maturity begins when we're content to feel right about
 something without feeling the necessity to prove someone
 else wrong.                           -- Sydney J Harris
It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity,
 to rise to the level of self-criticism.
                                -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Compassion for our parents is the true sign of maturity.
                                           -- Anais Nin
I would say that the surest measure of a man's or woman's
 maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates
 in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides
 for his spouse.                             -- Benjamin Spock
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace;
 to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
                              -- William Arthur Ward
Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going 
 to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves.
 Stop waiting for a producer.  Produce yourself.
                                -- Marianne Williamson
Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied
 to about anything.                     -- Frank Yerby
Too much of a Good Thing can be Bad.
 Many desired things, like money, power, or fame
 are fine in moderation, but become a problem 
 when taken to excess.
The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways
 and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
                                   -- Christian Bovee
In art, "good enough" is not good enough.
                     -- Ursula K Le Guin
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that 
 he found time when he was an old man, to learn music
 and dancing and thought it time well spent.
                               -- Michel de Montaigne
I am still learning.
 (In Latin, famously rendered as "Ancora Imparo)
                         -- Michelangelo's Motto
While one finds company in himself and his pursuits,
 he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
                                 -- A Bronson Alcott
The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
                                        -- Isaac Asimov
One's work may be finished someday 
 but one's education, never.
                         -- Alexandre Dumas (the father)
I am learning all the time.
 The tombstone will be my diploma.
                                  -- Eartha Kitt
Never become so much of an expert 
 that you stop gaining expertise.
 View life as a continuous learning experience.
                              -- Denis Waitley
The excitement of learning separates youth from old age.
 As long as you're learning you're not old.
                                    -- Dr Rosalyn Yalow
When people are least sure
 they are often most dogmatic.
                        -- John Kenneth Galbraith
All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.
                                     -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Under Capitalism, man exploits man,
 under Communism, it's just the opposite.
                                  -- John Kenneth Galbraith
It is possible that people need to believe they are 
 unmanaged if they are to be managed effectively.
                       -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind
 and proving there is no need to do so,
 almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
                        -- John Kenneth Galbraith
People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction
 rather than surrender any material part of their disadvantage.
                                      -- John Kenneth Galbraith
If you do what you've always done,
 you'll get what you've always got.
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born,
 and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
                                                 -- James Baldwin
A capacity to change is indispensable.
 Equally indispensable is the capacity to hold fast
 to that which is good.       -- John Foster Dulles
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just,
 which demanded that one must grow or else pay 
 for remaining the same.        -- Norman Mailer
It is never too late, in fiction or in life, to revise.
                                       -- Nancy Thayer
It better befits a man to laugh at life than to lament it.
                                                -- Seneca
Humour is a social lubricant
 that helps us get over some of the bad spots.
                               -- Steve Allen
Humour does not rescue us from unhappiness
 but enables us to move back from it a little.
                              -- Mason Cooley
First I was an idealist; next I was a realist;
 now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove!
 if things get much worse, I'll become a humourist.
                                  -- Ellen Glasgow
Humour is the shock absorber of life,
 it helps us take the blows.        -- Peggy Noonan
Humour is the affectionate communication of insight.
                                      -- Leo Rosten
Greatness has nothing to do with goodness.
                           -- Frank Yerby
There is no pain equal to that of being forced to think.
                                         -- Frank Yerby
Maturity is reached the day 
 we don't need to be lied to about anything.
                             -- Frank Yerby
Life puts no greater burdens upon a man
 than the necessity of making decisions.
                         -- Frank Yerby
A man must live in this world and work out his own 
 salvation in the midst of temptation.
                                    -- Frank Yerby
The three stages of problem resolution:
 Step One: Define the problem
 Step Two: Exhaust every alternative in attempting to solve it
 Step Three: If Step Two fails, try to find some humour in your dilemma.
Humour is a rubber sword
 it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
                                      -- Mary Hirsch
Only put off until tomorrow
 what you are willing to die having left undone.
                                --Pablo Picasso
Phases of a Project:
 1. Exultation
 2. Disenchantment
 3. Confusion
 4. Search for the guilty
 5. Punishment of the innocent
 6. Distinction for the uninvolved
Alas for those who never sing,
 But die with all their music in them.
         -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Dr.
I don't want to get to the end of my life
 and find that I lived just the length of it.
 I want to have lived the width of it as well.
                            -- Diane Ackerman
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
 I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
 believe in them and try to follow where they lead.
                                         -- Louisa May Alcott
Life is a great big canvas,
 and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
                                    -- Danny Kaye
Life is like a ten-speed bicycle.
 Most of us have gears we never use.
                  -- Charles Schulz
Golf is a game in which you yell "fore",
 shoot "six", and write down "five".
                        -- Paul Harvey
If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong,
 then nine times out of ten, it will.
                                        -- Paul Harvey
When your outgoings exceed your income,
 the upshot may be your downfall.
                                 -- Paul Harvey
If "pro" is the opposite of "con"
 what is the opposite of "progress"?
                              -- Paul Harvey
A sudden, bold, and unexpected question doth many times
 surprise a man, and lay him open.     -- Francis Bacon
A good question is never answered.
 It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed
 to be planted and to bear more seed towards the hope
 of greening the landscape of idea.      -- John Ciardi
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant
 and ask a few questions.             -- Peter Drucker
The only questions that really matter 
 are the ones you ask yourself.   -- Ursula K Le Guin
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang
 a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
                                           -- Bertrand Russell
The chief cause of problems is solutions.
                      -- Edward R Murrow
Consultant: an ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.
                                         -- Edward R Murrow
Better to trust the man who is frequently in error
 than the one who is never in doubt.  -- Edward R Murrow
If your actions inspire others to dream more,
 learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.
                                   -- John Quincy Adams
People seldom improve when they have no other model
 but themselves to copy.        -- Oliver Goldsmith
We only think when we are confronted with a problem.
                                      -- John Dewey
Life is challenging - thank goodness!
 Where would any of us be if life were easy,
 or worse, effortless?
Between stimulus and response, there is a space.
 In that space is our power to choose our response.
 In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
                                  -- Victor Franki
We choose our joys and our sorrows 
 long before we experience them.
                  -- Kahlil Gibran
When you have to make a choice and don't make it,
 that is in itself a choice.
                                -- William James
Every man builds his world in his own image.
 He has the power to choose, but no power 
 to escape the necessity of choice.
                                -- Ayn Rand
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words;
 it is expressed in the choices one makes.
                           -- Eleanor Roosevelt
In Aristotelian terms, the good leader must have ethos, pathos and logos.
 The ethos is his moral character, the source of his ability to persuade.
 The pathos is his ability to touch feelings, to move people emotionally.
 The logos is his ability to give solid reasons for an action to move
 people intellectually.                              -- Mortimer J Adler
A prime function of the leader is to keep hope alive.
                                   -- John W Gardner
A leader's role is to raise people's aspirations for what
 they can become and to release their energies so they will
 try to get there.                          -- David Gergen
The most effective leader is the one who satisfies the
 psychological needs of his followers.  
                                       -- David Ogilvy
Leaders don't create followers, 
 they create more leaders.  -- Tom Peters
A good leader needs to stand behind his or her followers,
 as often as he or she needs to stand in front of them.
                                   -- Marilyn vos Savant
Outstanding leaders go out of the way to boost the
 self-esteem of their personnel.  If people believe
 in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
                                        -- Sam Walton
When you cease to dream, you cease to live.
                         -- Malcolm Forbes
Let your children go, if you want to keep them.
                             -- Malcolm Forbes
Retirement kills more people than hard work every did.
                                    -- Malcolm Forbes
It's much easier to suggest solutions when you don't
 know too much about the problem.
                                   -- Malcolm Forbes
People take different roads seeking fulfilment and happiness.
 Just because they're not on your road, doesn't mean they've 
 gotton lost.                            -- H Jackson Browne
It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path,
 but it's another to thank that yours is the only path.
                                       -- Paulo Coelho
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen,
 few in pursuit of the goal.       -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Whether you follow a well-troden path, or make a new one,
 make sure you are headed towards a worthwhile destination.
False values begin with the worship of things.
                              -- Susan Sontag
That is the great distinction between the sexes.
 Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects.
                                               -- John Fowles
The creative impulses of man are always at war
 with the possessive impulses.    - Van Wyck Brooks
If there is to be any peace,
 it will come about through being, not having.
                              -- Henry Miller
Man's obsession to add to his wealth and honour
 is the chief source of his misery.
Life is the sum of all your choices.
                    -- Albert Camus
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is 
 dressed in overalls and looks like work.
                                  -- Thomas Edison
Every man's life lies within the present;
 for the past is spent and done with,
 and the future is uncertain.    -- Marcus Aurelius
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past,
 not to worry about the future, not to anticipate troubles,
 but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
        -- Siddhartha Gautama Buddha
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
             -- Margaret Wander Bonanno
The past is a ghost, the future a dream.
 All we every have is now.   -- Bill Cosby
There are some people that if they don't know,
 you can't tell them.      -- Louis Armatrong
If you don't know jewelry, know the jeweler.
                      -- Warren Buffet
The key to great achievement is dedication,
 and the secret of dedication comes from an intense desire
 to be the best at something that has captured the imagination.
Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants
 or what you think will make you look good.
                                           -- Norman Schwarzkopf
You can't help someone get up a hill without getting 
 closer to the top yourself.   -- Norman Schwarzkopf
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character.
 But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
                                       -- Norman Schwarzkopf
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right 
 thing to do.  The hard part is doint it.  -- Norman Schwarzkopf
There's more than one way to look at a problem,
 and they all may be right.        -- Norman Schwarzkopf
If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.
                                    -- Margaret Atwood
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection.
 So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure
 to do the impossible.         -- William Faulkner
Perfection is not attainable.
 But if we chase perfection,
 we can catch excellence.   -- Vince Lombardi
A man would do nothing if he waited until he could
 do it so well that no one could find fault.
                              -- John Henry Newman
If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.
                                     -- Leo Tolstoy
Giving money and power to government is like
 giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
                             -- P J O'Rourke
Politics is the business of getting power and privilege
 without possessing merit.              -- P J O'Rourke
For a purely untrustworthy human organ,
 the memory is right in there with the penis.
                             -- P J O'Rourke
A life without purpose is like a novel without a plot.
 It wanders all over the place, is hard to follow, 
 and in the end, doesn't get particularly good reviews.
                                    -- Dr Mardy Grothe
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the 
 good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
 It may be better to live under robber barons,
 than under imnipotent moral busybodies.
                                    --C S Lewis
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to
 my house with the conscious design of doing me good,
 I should run for my life.    -- Henry David Thoreau
In life it is difficult to say who does you the most mischief,
 enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.
                              -- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Whenever 'A' attempts by law to impose his moral
 standards upon 'B', 'A' is most likely a scroundrel.
                                      -- H L Mencken
The passion for setting people right, is in itself,
 an afflictive disease.          -- Marianne Moore
Never do anything when you are in a temper,
 for you will do everything wrong.
                       -- Baltasar Gracian
Knowing how to keep a friend is more important
 than gaining a new one.   -- Baltasar Gracian
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of
 having abundance in your life.
                            -- Dr Wayne W Dyer
Find something you love to do
 and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
                                 -- Harvey Mackay
Nobody can be successful, unless he loves his work.
                                  -- David Sarnoff
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become.
 Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be;
 your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
                                               --James Allen
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams
 because they grow old, they grow old, 
 because they stop pursuing dreams.
                      -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Champions aren't made in gyms.
 Champions are made from something 
 they have deep inside of them 
 - a desire, a dream, a vision.
                   -- Muhammad Ali
There is suffering in life, and there are defeats.
 No one can avoid them.  But it's better to lose
 some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams
 than to be defeated without ever knowing
 what you're fighting for.
                                      -- Paulo Coelho
When you cease to dream, you cease to live.
                         -- Malcolm Forbes
People need dreams,
 there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.
                        -- Charlotte Gilman
Sometimes we have the dream
 but we are not ourselves ready for the dream.
 We have to grow to meet it.
                            -- Louis L'Armour
It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled,
 but it is certainly a calamity not to dream.
                                -- Benjamin E Mays
Keep your feet on the ground
 and your thoughts at lofty heights.
                  -- Pearce Pilgrim
Never underestimate the power of dreams
 and the influence of the human spirit.
 We are all the same in this notion:
 The potential for greatness lives within each of us.
                                    -- Wilma Rudolph
The best way to make your dreams come true
 is to wake up.             -- Paul Valery
I love, therefore I am vulnerable.
             -- Madeleine L'Engle
The enending paradox is that we do learn through pain.
                                 -- Madeleine L'Engle
Perfection is our goal.
 Excellence will be tolerated.
            -- Charles Duvall Jr.
Are You being too cautious for Your own good?
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps
 the most fatal to true happiness.
                                -- Bertrand Russell
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions.
 All life is an experiment.
 The more experiments you make the better.   
                              -- Ralph Waldo Emerson   
Life is made up of a series of judgements on insufficient data,
 and if we waited to run down all our doubts, 
 it would flow past us.                   -- Learned Hand  
Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences.
 No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
                                      -- T H Huxley
Nothing will ever be attempted
 if all possible objections must be first overcome.
                              -- Dr Samuel Johnson 
It is impossibloe to live without failing at something,
 unless you live so cautiously that you might as well
 not have lived at all.
                                        -- J K Rowling
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
We do not admire what we cannot understand.
The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.
The passion of setting people right
 is in itself an afflictive disease.
The purpose of life is not to be happy, but to matter,
 to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some
 difference that I lived at all.
                                         --Leo Rosten
The secret of man's being is not only to live
 but to have something to live for.
                         -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.
 It is not attained through self-gratification
 but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
                                                  -- Helen Keller
Life is a succession of re-adjustments.
                                   -- Elizabeth Bowen
Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself,
 in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
                                          -- Elizabeth Bowen
Insight improves your outlook.
                              -- C K Garabed
For more people than you would think, 
 the driving motivation behind their success
 has not been striving for self-actualisation,
 but the burning desire to prove somebody wrong.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to
 learn from experience of others, are also remarkable
 for their apparent disinclination to do so.
                                            -- Douglas Adams
Experience has two things to teach:
 the first is that we must correct a great deal;
 the second, that we must not correct too much.
                             -- Eugene Delacroix
Experience is a good school.
 But the fees are high.
                  -- Heinrich Heine
Independence is happiness.
                           -- Susan B Anthony
Men, their rights, and nothing more;
 women, their rights, and nothing less.
                    -- Susan B Anthony
No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.
 (piggybacking on Abraham Lincoln's legenday anti-slavery line)
                                            -- Susan B Anthony
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants
 them to do to their fellows,
 because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
                                          -- Susan B Anthony
If you want to be loved, be loveable.
                                     -- Ovid
A horse never runs so fast as when he
 has other horses to catch up and outpace.
                                    -- Ovid
Chance affects everything.  
 Let your hook be always cast;
 in the stream where you least expect it,
 there will be a fish.           -- Ovid
A smile is the light in your window that tells others
 that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
                                     -- Denis Waitley
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
                            -- William Arthur Ward
A smile is the shortest distance between two people.
                                    -- Victor Borge
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
                               -- Phyllis Diller
One of the ceaseless wonders of the world;
 the power of a smile.
                        -- Malcolm Forbes
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do,
 and liking how you do it.
                               -- Maya Angelou
Success is a man who has the love and trust of a woman,
 a job he likes, and an abiding sense of humour.
 Success is a man whose children love him and have
 made him proud of them.  Success is a man who dies at 
 home in his sleep after a good life.
                                        -- David Brown
Success is having to worry about every damn thing
 in the world except money.
                                   -- Johnny Cash
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning 
 and gets out of bed at night, and in between does
 what he wants to do.                 -- Bob Dylan

To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal
 is the secret of success.  But success? what exactly 
 is success?  For me it is to be found not in applause,
 but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is
 realising one's ideal.                -- Anna Pavlova
Great things are not done by impulse,
 but by a series of small things brought together.
                              -- Vincent van Gogh
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes
more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.
                                        -- Vincent van Gogh
I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled.
 Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value.
 Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
                       -- Boris Pasternak, "Doctor Zhivago"
There is no greater burden than great potential.
     -- Charles M Schuk (Comic strip, Charlie Brown, Snoopy)
Just remember, when you're over the hill,
 you begin to pick up speed.
                              -- Charles M Schuk
Absence makes the heart grow fonder,
 but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.
                                -- Charles M Schuk
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask
 "Where have I gone wrong".  Then a voice says to me
 This is going to take more than one night.
                                  -- Charles M Schuk
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning,
 and yet I am happy.  I can't figure it out.
 What am I doing right?      -- Cahrles M Schuk
Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.
                                   -- William Gaddis
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 M Hutchins
On the nuture side of the coin, there is a strong relationship
 between undeserved praise that people receive early in life
 and an inability to accept criticism later on.
 Children need love as they are growing up, but they also
 need challenges and criticism, especially when they are
 going through the motions, lazing by, or selling themselves
 short.
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their
 policies is dangerous.  They will always eqate their
policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
                                -- Henry Steel Commager
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary.
 It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body.
 It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
                                    -- Winston Churchill
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from
 a relative, a friend, an acquaintenance, or a stranger.
                                    -- Franklin P Jones
There are lots of ways of being miserable,
 but there's only one way of being comfortable,
 and that is to stop running round after happiness.
 If you make up your mind not to be happy,
 there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.
                                            -- Edith Wharton
If your paraents always said that you walk on water,
 it's going to come as quite a shock to discover later
 in life that others don't even think you can swim.

Resolve to be thyself; and know that he,
 who finds himself, loses his misery.
                          -- Matthew Arnold
Let the world know you as you are,
 not as you think you should be,
 because sooner or later, if you are posing,
 you will forget the pose, and then where are you?
                                   -- Fanny Brice
About all you can do in life is be who you are.
 Some people will love you for you.
 Most will love you for what you can do for them,
 and some won't like you at all.
                               -- Rita Mae Brown
No man should part with his individuality to become another.
 No process is so fatal as that which would cast all me
 into one mould.
                    -- William Elery Channing
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of
 incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be
 false, and incur my own abhorrence.
                                -- Frederick Douglas
I wanted only to try to live in accord with the promptings
 which came from my true self.  Why was that so very difficult?
                                  -- Hermann Hesse
Don't compromise yourself.
 You are all you've got.     -- Janis Joplin
Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgement,
 God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses,
 but why he had not been Zusy.
                         -- Walter Kaufmann
I like long walks, especially when they are taken
 by people who annoy me.            -- Fred Allen
"Committee" - A group of men who individually can do
 nothing, but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
                                           -- Fred Allen
Television is called a new medium,
 and I have discovered why they call it a Medium,
 because it is neither Rate nor Well Done.
                                   -- Fred Allen
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of 
 circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set
 of attitudes.                           -- Hugh Downs
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task
 which, more than anything else, will affect its
 successful outcome.     --        William James
Ability is what you're capable of doing,
 Motivation determines what you do.
 Attitude determines how well you do it.
                           -- Lou Holtz
If you can't change your fate,
 change your attitude.   -- Amy Tan
The rareness of excellence should not be made
 into an excuse for the failure to recognise it.
                            -- John Ciardi
Modern art is what happens when painters stop
 looking at girls and persuade themselves that
 they have a better idea.       -- John Ciardi
Love is the word used to label the sexual
 excitement of the young, the habituation of the
 middle-aged, and the mutal dependence of the old.
                                   -- Hohn Ciardi
Maturity is recognising your limitations,
 but not allowing them to limit your aspirations.
                            -- Marlene Caroselli
Maturity is understanding that most of the hours
 in your life are spent alone and you're not lonely.
                               -- Marlene Caroselli
"Maturity" is gratification delayed,
 Self-confidence conveyed,
 Opportunity parlayed,
 Risk delayed,
 Self-esteem displayed,'
 and self-denial repaid.      -- Marlene Caroselli
"Maturity" is ripening without rotting.
                   -- Mary E Armstrong
"Maturity" is recognising not that one can BE wrong
 but that one IS wrong.      
                                -- Will Aston-Reese
"Maturity" is when you parent your parents successfully.
                                -- Heather Chandler
You can only be yound once
 but you can be immature forever.
                            -- Dave Barry
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and
 experience is the most difficult period in one's life.
                                  -- Lhamo Thondup
Being an old maid was a great deal like death by drowning,
 a really delightful sensation when you ceased struggling.
                                          -- Edna Ferber
A woman can look both moral and exciting,
 if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
                                  -- Edna Ferber
Living in the past is a dull and lonely business,
 looking back strains the next muscles,
 causes you to bump into people not going your way.
                                    -- Edna Ferber
You will never find a better sparring partner
 than Adversity.                -- Golda Meir
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talens which,
 in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
                                            -- Horace
The truth which makes men free is for the most part
 the truth which men prefer not to hear.
                                     --Herbert Agar
If you can give your son or daughter only one gift,
 let it be Enthusiasm.
                                   -- Bruce Barton
Beware the fury of a patient man.
                                  -- John Dryden
Take me for better or for worse,
 but not for granted.     -- Anonymous
Good kids are like sunsets.
 We take them for granted.  -- Erma Bombeck
Taking things and people for granted
 is the most common form of ingratitude.
An autobiography usually reveals nothign bad about its writer,
 except his memory.                       -- Franklin P Jones
A show of envy is an insult to oneself.
 Life is a rainbow which also includes black.
 Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
 Justice is like a train that's nearly always late.
                       -- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Everything I do, I do on the principle of russian borscht.
 You can throw everything into it,
 beets, carrots, cabbage, onions, everything you want.
 What's important is the result, the taste of the borscht.
                             -- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Life is the sum of all your choices.
                    -- Albert Camus
When you have to make a choice and don't make it,
 that is in itself a choice.    -- William James
The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you 
 give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries,
 to come to conclusions that are right for him, 
 whether or not they coincide with your own.
                                          --   Alistair Cooke
The purpose of an organisation is to enable
 common men to do uncommon things.
                           -- Peter Drucker
Rank does not confer privilege or give power,
 it imposes responsibility.
                             -- Peter Druker
My greatest strength as a consultant
 is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
                           -- Peter Druker
Whenever you see a successful business,
 someone made a courageous decision.
                       -- Peter Druker
The first duty of love is to listen.
                     --Paul Tillich
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand;
 they listen with the intent to reply.
 They are either speaking or preparing to speak.
                             -- Stephen R Covey



The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storms
 terrible, but they have never found these dangers
 sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
                                        -- Vincent van Gogh
In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities:
 integrity, intelligence and energy.
 And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you.
                                              -- Warren Buffet
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless,
 and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
                                      -- Dr Samuel Johnson
If you have integrity, nothing else matters.
 If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.
                                   -- Alan Simpson
The most important persuasion tool you have
 in your entire arsenal is integrity.
                              -- Zig Ziglar
Joy is the best makeup.
                        -- Anne Lamott
'No' is a complete sentence.
                           -- Anne Lamott
It's good to do uncomfortable things.
 It's weight training for life.
                             -- Anne Lamott
The measure of success is not whether you have a touch problem
 to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last
 year.                                   -- John Foster Dulles
We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities
 brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. 
                                            -- John W Gardner
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.    
                              -- Henry J Kaiser
Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
                                         -- Thomas Szasz
If you talk to God, you are praying;
 if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
                             -- Thomas Szasz
The stupid neither forgive nor forget;
 the naive forgive and forget;
 the wise forgive but do not forget.
                    -- Thomas Szasz
You know you're getting old when you stoop down to tie your shoelaces
 and wonder what else you could do while you're down there.
                                                      -- George Burns
I don't know how you feel about old age, but in my case
 I didn't see it coming.  It hit me in the rear.
                                      -- Phyllis Diller
As you get older, the pickings get slimmer
 but the people don't.                    
                          -- Carrie fisher
The seven ages of man:
 spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills.
                                  -- Richard J Needham
I've learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper;
 the closer you get to the end, the faster it goes.
Be helpful to all who need your assistance, but don't overdo it.
 Over-helpfulness too often results in under-performance.
Free love is too expensive.
          -- Bernadette Devlin
He who builds walls to create exclusion for others
 builds walls across his own freedom.
                              -- Robert A Heinlein
He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate
 he who loves, finds the door open.
                       -- Robert A Heinlein
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life,
 your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.
                                -- Robert A Heinlein











       


                                  





          




              


















                          








