Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
She ran the gamut of emotions from 'A' to 'B'. -- Dorothy Parker, on a Kate Hepburn performance | |
When all else fails, try Kate Smith. | |
Kiss me, Kate, we will be married o' Sunday. -- William Shakespeare, "The Taming of the Shrew" | |
Try to find the real tense of the report you are reading: Was it done, is it being done, or is something to be done? Reports are now written in four tenses: past tense, present tense, future tense, and pretense. Watch for novel uses of CONGRAM (CONtractor GRAMmar), defined by the imperfect past, the insufficient present, and the absolutely perfect future. -- Amrom Katz | |
"And they told us, what they wanted... Was a sound that could kill some-one, from a distance." -- Kate Bush | |
Katz' Law: Men and nations will act rationally when all other possibilities have been exhausted. History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. -- Abba Eban | |
When you are about to do an objective and scientific piece of investigation of a topic, it is well to gave the answer firmly in hand, so that you can proceed forthrightly, without being deflected or swayed, directly to the goal. -- Amrom Katz |