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In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Business and Economy When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Business and Economy "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u 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 The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Business and Economy
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Business and Economy "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Business and Economy
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Business and Economy An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Business and Economy
"You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Business and Economy Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Business and Economy
It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Business and Economy Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Business and Economy
Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Business and Economy She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Business and Economy
When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) 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 If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Business and Economy I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Business and Economy
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Business and Economy "Think off-center." (George Carlin) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Business and Economy
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Business and Economy
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Business and Economy "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Business and Economy
