The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Business and Economy The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Business and Economy
"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, "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Business and Economy Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Business and Economy
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Business and Economy I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill 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 Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Business and Economy
Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Business and Economy War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Business and Economy
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Business and Economy 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 When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed My other wife is beautiful. Business and Economy
"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Business and Economy A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Business and Economy
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Business and Economy Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Business and Economy
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Business and Economy A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Business and Economy
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Business and Economy "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Business and Economy
I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Business and Economy Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) 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 In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Business and Economy The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Business and Economy
