Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Business and Economy 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 "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Business and Economy
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist 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 Business and Economy It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin "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 There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
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I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Business and Economy "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Business and Economy "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana 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 Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Business and Economy Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Business and Economy "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Business and Economy Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Business and Economy
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Business and Economy I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Business and Economy
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Business and Economy Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
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What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Business and Economy Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Business and Economy
What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Business and Economy All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Business and Economy
