If a Cluttered Desk Signs a Cluttered Mind, of What, Then, Is an Empty Desk a Sign
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If a cluttered desk signs a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?
- Albert Einstein.
They say that time changes things, but actually you have to change them yourself.
- Andy Warhol
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend.
- Albert Camus
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
- Calvin and Hobbes
Action may not always bring happiness;but there is no happiness without action.
- Benjamin Disraeli
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
- Confucius
Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.
- Mary Wilson Little
A friend is one who walks in when the rest walk out.
- Walter Winchell
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
- Christina Rossetti
If you want to succeed, you'd better look as if you mean business.
- Jeanne Holm
Be bold and mighty powers will come to your aid.
- Basil King
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
- Dan Stanford
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
- Karen Sunde
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
- Indira Gandhi
All of the significant battles are waged within the self.
- Sheldon Kopp
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
- Martin Luther King
Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.
- John G. Diefenbaker
Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
- Lord Byron
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
- Chinese Proverb
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.
- Danny Kaye
Don't throw stones at your neighbors , if your own windows are glass.
- Benjamin Franklin
You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
- Sam Keen
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. - General George S. Patton, Jr.
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
- O. A. Battista
Life is something that everyone should try at least once.
- Henry J. Tillman
Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
- Rita Mae Brown
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
- Bill Cosby
Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Retirement at sixty-five is ridiculous. When I was sixty-five I still had pimples.
- George Burns
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well, I have others.
- Groucho Marx
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Winston Churchill
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. - Winston Churchill
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. - Rita Mae Brown
To err is human, but it feels divine. - Mae West
Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. - Albert Camus
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus
Find a job you like and you add five days to every week. - H. Jackson Browne
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. - Goethe
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. - Goethe
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. - Goethe
I like you, but I wouldn't want to see you working with subatomic particles. - Bumper Sticker
The time is always right to do what is right. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Freedom has always been an expensive thing. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Man invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking. - Elayne Boolser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. - Frank Zappa
What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day. - Phyllis Diller
Give your child a spanking once a day. If you don't know why, he does. - Sam Levenson
For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page. - Saint Augustine
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. - William James
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise. - W.B. Yeats
Who gossips to you will gossip of you. - Turkish proverb
The secret to success is; find out where people are going and get there first. - Unknown
It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool. - Calvin and Hobbes
I'm not crazy...I've just been in a bad mood for 40 years. - Shirley McClane in Steel Magnolias
There is nothing new except what is forgotten. - Mlle. Bertin
The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form. - Stanley J. Randall
Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit. - R. E. Shay
When you teach your son, you teach your son's son. - The Talmud
Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. - John Cotton Dana
If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it. - John D. Rockefeller
If you do the job badly enough, sometimes you don't get asked to do it again. - Calvin and Hobbes
Truth is shorter than fiction. - Irving Cohen
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. - Stella Adler
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. - Theodore Isaac Rubin
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain
The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking. - Louis Vermeil We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately. - Russell Baker
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. - Robert A. Humphrey
The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them. - Samuel McChord Crothers
Some days you're a bug, some days you're a windshield. - Price Cobb
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. - John Kenneth Galbraith
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. - Arthur C. Clarke
It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. - Plutarch
Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing. - Wernher von Braun
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. - Euripides
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. - H. L. Mencken
In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. - Herbert Henry Asquith
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person. - William Feather
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishment - there are consequences. - Robert G. Ingersoll
You can observe a lot by just watching. - Yogi Berra
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. - Robert Frost
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like. - Jackie Mason
I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward the sunlight. - Rita Rudner
People find life entirely too time-consuming. - Stanislaw J. Lec
Many receive advice, few profit by it. - Publilius Syrus
No pressure, no diamonds. - Mary Case
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. - Plutarch
Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy. - Spike Milligan
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde
Never eat more than you can lift. - Miss Piggy
It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one. - Seneca
A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for. - Grace Murray Hopper
Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he. - Publilius Syrus
If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority. - Yugoslav Proverb
Experience: A comb life gives you after you lose your hair. - Judith Stern
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. - Eric Hoffer
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them. - Confucius
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. - Pablo Picasso
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. - Elbert Hubbard
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting. - Alan Dean Foster Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov
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Remember the Linux, that's like a wigwam: no Windows, no Gates, just Apache inside
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. - Benjamin Franklin
If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it. - Horace Mann
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber. - Sir Winston Churchill
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. - Robert Frost
Money can't buy happiness but it can buy healthcare
I started with nothing and I still have most of it.
Remember, it's always darkest just before it goes totally black!
Comedy is tragedy plus time.
Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.
You can't buy back your youth, but you can pay for it later.
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx
"Here is a test to find out whether your mission on Earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't."
"Jesus is coming. Look busy."
"When I was born, I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half!"
"In some ways, we are more confused than ever, but we feel that we are confused on a higher level about more important things."
"Every day is painful, and then the last one kills." - Mary Walsh
"The first step to failure is trying."
"I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing, the rich would have kept more of it for themselves."
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance? - Edgar Bergen
If swimming is so good for your figure, how do you explain whales? The uncreative mind can spot the wrong answers, but it takes a creative mind to spot the wrong questions.