In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Neum As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Neum
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Neum Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Neum
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Neum Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Neum
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Neum "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Neum
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Neum "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Neum
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Neum I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Neum
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Neum "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Neum
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Neum The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Neum
The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Neum And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery 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. America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Neum
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Neum Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Neum
"Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) 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 Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Neum "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Neum
