I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Business and Economy Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Business and Economy
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Business and Economy A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Business and Economy
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning 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 Business and Economy The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Business and Economy
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Business and Economy Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Business and Economy
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Business and Economy Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Business and Economy
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Business and Economy If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Business and Economy
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Business and Economy
Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Business and Economy "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Business and Economy "Think off-center." (George Carlin) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Business and Economy
"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston 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 Business and Economy "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Business and Economy
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Business and Economy When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Business and Economy
