Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers 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 Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Business and Economy Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Business and Economy
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Business and Economy I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Business and Economy
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Business and Economy A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Business and Economy
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Business and Economy There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Business and Economy
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Business and Economy Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Business and Economy
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Business and Economy People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "Think off-center." (George Carlin) If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Business and Economy
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Business and Economy
"Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Business and Economy "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Business and Economy
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Business and Economy Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Business and Economy
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Business and Economy The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Business and Economy
"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop 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 I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Business and Economy Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Business and Economy
