Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary,1911
A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don't think this can be true for photography. Unless there is something a little incomplete and a little strange, it will simply look like a copy of something pretty. We won't take an interest in it. ~John Loengard, "Pictures Under Discussion"
There are an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job. ~Peter Drucker
When you're young and you fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age, you splatter. ~Roy Rogers
You know the definition of the perfectly designed machine.... The perfectly designed machine is one in which all its working parts wear out simultaneously. I am that machine. ~Frederick Alexander Lindemann
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may. ~Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversation: Diogenes and Plato
Et al: (1) used as an abbreviation of et alii (masculine plural) or et aliae (feminine plural) or et alia (neutral plural) when referring to a number of people, et al., and others; (2) used as an abbreviation of et alibi when referring to other occurrences in a text, et al., and elsewhere.
I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top. ~Frank Moore Colby
There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope. ~Joseph Conrad
The Virgin Mary was an unwed teenage mother. ~Author Unknown
When you invite trouble, it's usually quick to accept. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies. ~Shirley Abbott
I met with an accident on the way to the track; I arrived safely. ~Joe E. Lewis
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. ~Agnes De Mille
Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated. ~Author Unknown
It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious. ~Kin Hubbard
Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure is only a palliative. ~Le Duc de Levis, Memoires
Our tax code is so long it makes War and Peace seem breezy. ~Steven LaTourette
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury. ~E.H. Chapin
Unhappy is a people that has run out of words to describe what is going on. ~Thurman Arnold
He who lends a book is an idiot. He who returns the book is more of an idiot. ~Arabic Proverb
Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind. ~W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand
We acquire the strength we have overcome. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better." ~Alistair Cooke When television came roaring in after the war (World War II) they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why - television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better." ~Alistair Cooke When the bee comes to your house, let her have beer; you may want to visit the bee's house some day. ~Congo Proverb