Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Business and Economy
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Business and Economy I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
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My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Business and Economy A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Business and Economy
I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Business and Economy
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Business and Economy The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Business and Economy
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Business and Economy 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 Spinster: A bachelor's wife. No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
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"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. 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 A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Business and Economy "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Business and Economy
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Business and Economy The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Business and Economy
"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Business and Economy Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Business and Economy A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Business and Economy
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Business and Economy 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 "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Business and Economy
