It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Financial Services No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Financial Services
It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Financial Services "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Financial Services
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Financial Services The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Financial Services
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Financial Services "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Financial Services I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Financial Services
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton "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) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "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) Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Financial Services "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) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Financial Services
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Financial Services A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Financial Services
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Financial Services "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Financial Services
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 Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Financial Services The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Financial Services
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig 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 Financial Services Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Financial Services
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Financial Services University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Financial Services
