Valdrin - Operates a number of business ventures including internet service, internet cafe, the restaurant Cafe Gabuleo, distribution of beverages and snack foods, and textile manufacturing.
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Business and Economy
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Business and Economy "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Business and Economy
Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Business and Economy Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Business and Economy The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Business and Economy
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Business and Economy If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Business and Economy
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Business and Economy Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Business and Economy
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Business and Economy "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Business and Economy
"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Business and Economy You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Business and Economy "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Business and Economy
If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Business and Economy
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Business and Economy "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Business and Economy
