Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Business and Economy "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "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) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Business and Economy "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Business and Economy
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Business and Economy To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Business and Economy
A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Business and Economy "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Business and Economy
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Business and Economy I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Business and Economy
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Business and Economy The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers 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 We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Business and Economy blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Business and Economy
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Business and Economy When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Business and Economy
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Business and Economy It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Business and Economy
"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Business and Economy I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Business and Economy
