Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Business and Economy There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Business and Economy
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D 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 Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Business and Economy
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Business and Economy Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Business and Economy
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Business and Economy The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Business and Economy
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Business and Economy The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Business and Economy
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Business and Economy Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Business and Economy
"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Business and Economy He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Business and Economy Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Business and Economy
Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Business and Economy I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Business and Economy
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Business and Economy One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Business and Economy
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Business and Economy "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Business and Economy
