Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Business and Economy Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Business and Economy
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Business and Economy "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke 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
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Business and Economy "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Business and Economy
When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Business and Economy
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Business and Economy Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Business and Economy
It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Business and Economy Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Business and Economy
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Business and Economy The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Business and Economy
People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 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 any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Business and Economy I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Business and Economy
Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Business and Economy "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Business and Economy
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Business and Economy Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Business and Economy Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Business and Economy
