"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Business and Economy "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Business and Economy
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Business and Economy "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Business and Economy
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Business and Economy Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Business and Economy
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Business and Economy Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Business and Economy
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Business and Economy "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Business and Economy
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Business and Economy If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Business and Economy
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Business and Economy It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Business and Economy
Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Business and Economy The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce 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 Business and Economy
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Business and Economy 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
work and the If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Business and Economy
Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Business and Economy The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Business and Economy
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith 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 "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Business and Economy
