Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Business and Economy The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Business and Economy
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Business and Economy The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Business and Economy
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Business and Economy 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 The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx 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 Business and Economy
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Business and Economy Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Business and Economy
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Business and Economy Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Business and Economy
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Business and Economy "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Business and Economy
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Business and Economy "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Business and Economy
"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Business and Economy Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) 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) Business and Economy
Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 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
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reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Business and Economy
Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Business and Economy Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Business and Economy
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje 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 "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) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Business and Economy "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
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