Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Business and Economy If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Business and Economy
"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Business and Economy "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Business and Economy
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Business and Economy Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
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Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Business and Economy
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." ( The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Business and Economy Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Business and Economy
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Business and Economy Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Business and Economy
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Business and Economy "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Business and Economy
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Business and Economy Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) 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 Business and Economy
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Business and Economy "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Business and Economy
"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Business and Economy "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "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 All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Business and Economy
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Business and Economy "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Business and Economy
