History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Business and Economy You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Business and Economy
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Business and Economy "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Business and Economy
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson 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 Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Business and Economy If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler 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 Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Business and Economy
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Business and Economy I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Business and Economy
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Business and Economy We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Business and Economy
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac 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 trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Business and Economy "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger 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 Business and Economy
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Business and Economy I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Business and Economy
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Business and Economy The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan Business and Economy
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Business and Economy In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Business and Economy
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. 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 "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Business and Economy blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Business and Economy
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy What's new? Most of my wife. Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Business and Economy
