It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Business and Economy Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Business and Economy
"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Business and Economy Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Business and Economy
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Business and Economy "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Business and Economy
"Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Business and Economy Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Business and Economy
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Business and Economy To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Business and Economy
The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Business and Economy The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Business and Economy
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Business and Economy Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Business and Economy
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Business and Economy When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni 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
expect i Business and Economy
"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Business and Economy A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Business and Economy
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Business and Economy The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Business and Economy
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
