welcome quotes for new joinees

I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing. ~Tori Amos



He was a "how" thinker, not an "if" thinker. ~Author Unknown



All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate. ~Nicolas Chamfort



You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job. ~Laurence J. Peter



Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated. ~Garry Trudeau



Most editors are failed writers - but so are most writers. ~T.S. Eliot



I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. ~Thomas Jefferson



Literature is an investment of genius which has dividends to all subsequent times. ~John Burroughs



All men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives, trying to create their idea of a masterpiece. ~Eddie Murphy, 1979



Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man's nirvana. And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and say you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind. He probably hasn't got the price of a television set. ~Raymond Chandler



A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on. ~Winston Churchill



The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad. ~A.K. Best



The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. ~Jean de la Bruyere, translated from French



Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out. ~Edwin Markham



Alimony - The ransom that the happy pay to the devil. ~H.L. Mencken, "Sententiae," A Book of Burlesques, 1920



Character is largely caught, and the father and the home should be the great sources of character infection. ~Frank H. Cheley



To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober. ~Logan Pearsall Smith



There are unknown worlds of knowledge in brutes; and whenever you mark a horse, or a dog, with a peculiarly mild, calm, deep-seated eye, be sure he is an Aristotle or a Kant, tranquilly speculating upon the mysteries in man. No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses. They see through us at a glance. And after all, what is a horse but a species of four-footed dumb man, in a leathern overall, who happens to live upon oats, and toils for his masters, half-requited or abused, like the biped hewers of wood and drawers of water? But there is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities. As for those majestic, magisterial truck-horses of the docks, I would as soon think of striking a judge on the bench, as to lay violent hand upon their holy hides. ~Herman Melville, Redburn. His First Voyage, 1849



Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. ~William Wordsworth