Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne "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) Business and Economy Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Business and Economy
All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Business and Economy Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Business and Economy
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Business and Economy Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Business and Economy
Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Business and Economy
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Business and Economy The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France 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" "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Business and Economy
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Business and Economy The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Business and Economy
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Business and Economy "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Business and Economy
Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Business and Economy Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Business and Economy
For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Business and Economy "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Business and Economy
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Business and Economy "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Business and Economy
No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Business and Economy It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Business and Economy
