The Euro - Information campaign for Europeans by the central bank; in several languages.
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 "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, News and Media Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee News and Media
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell News and Media Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) News and Media
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy News and Media Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder News and Media
Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb News and Media 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 It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) News and Media
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes News and Media The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner News and Media
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo News and Media The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw News and Media
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor News and Media Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons News and Media
"Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith News and Media Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') News and Media
"Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde News and Media Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) News and Media
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. News and Media Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar News and Media
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry News and Media A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates News and Media
