"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Business and Economy The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Business and Economy
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Business and Economy Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Business and Economy
Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Business and Economy English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. 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 Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Business and Economy
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Business and Economy Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Business and Economy
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Business and Economy Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Business and Economy
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Business and Economy "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Business and Economy
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Business and Economy I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Business and Economy
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton 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 In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Business and Economy I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth May you never leave your marriage alive. "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) 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 Business and Economy However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Business and Economy
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Business and Economy 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 Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Business and Economy
You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Business and Economy The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Business and Economy
