A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Business and Economy
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Business and Economy The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Business and Economy
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Business and Economy No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin 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 Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
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There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Business and Economy "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Business and Economy
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Business and Economy To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner 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
May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Business and Economy
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "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 "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Business and Economy "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
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Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Business and Economy "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Business and Economy
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Business and Economy I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Business and Economy
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Business and Economy "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
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