"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller 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) I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Business and Economy Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Business and Economy
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Business and Economy The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Business and Economy
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Business and Economy When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Business and Economy
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Business and Economy "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Business and Economy
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Business and Economy Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Business and Economy
I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Business and Economy The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Business and Economy
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Business and Economy To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Business and Economy
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle 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 Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Business and Economy
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. 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" "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Business and Economy "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Business and Economy
"Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort 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 Business and Economy A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Business and Economy
