A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Business and Economy Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Business and Economy
The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Business and Economy What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Business and Economy
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 Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Business and Economy Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Business and Economy
Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Business and Economy
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Business and Economy If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Business and Economy
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Business and Economy The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Business and Economy
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway 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 Unhappy Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Business and Economy "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Business and Economy
"Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Business and Economy "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Business and Economy I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Business and Economy
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Business and Economy Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Business and Economy
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Business and Economy They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Business and Economy
