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 "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Business and Economy "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Business and Economy
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 There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Business and Economy Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Business and Economy
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Business and Economy "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Business and Economy
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Business and Economy If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Business and Economy
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Business and Economy Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Business and Economy
The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Business and Economy "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Business and Economy
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Business and Economy When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Business and Economy
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Business and Economy "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Business and Economy
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Business and Economy Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Business and Economy
The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Business and Economy A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Business and Economy
Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Man and wife make one fool. Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Business and Economy If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy
