The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Business and Economy "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Business and Economy
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Business and Economy Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Business and Economy
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Business and Economy "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Business and Economy
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "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) Business and Economy I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Business and Economy
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Business and Economy I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Business and Economy
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. 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 Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Business and Economy "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Business and Economy
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Business and Economy
"I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "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) Business and Economy We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Business and Economy
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Business and Economy When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Business and Economy
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates 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 had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Business and Economy "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Business and Economy
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Business and Economy "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "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) Business and Economy
