[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Real Estate I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner 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 No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Real Estate
My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Real Estate I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Real Estate
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Real Estate I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Real Estate
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "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) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Real Estate I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Real Estate
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Real Estate Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Real Estate
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Real Estate "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Real Estate
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Real Estate "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Real Estate
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Real Estate Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman 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 Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Real Estate
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "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 The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Real Estate I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Real Estate
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
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-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Real Estate Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Marriage is a rest period between romances. Real Estate
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Real Estate Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Real Estate
