A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Business and Economy A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers "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) Business and Economy
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Business and Economy To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Business and Economy
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Business and Economy Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Business and Economy
"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Business and Economy The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Business and Economy
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Business and Economy "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Business and Economy
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Business and Economy The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Business and Economy
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg 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 Business and Economy Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 "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' Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Business and Economy
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Business and Economy It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "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) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Business and Economy
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Business and Economy Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Business and Economy
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Business and Economy "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Business and Economy
cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Business and Economy >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Business and Economy
