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"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Business and Economy "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy
In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Business and Economy And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Business and Economy
If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Business and Economy Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Business and Economy
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton 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 Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Business and Economy Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Business and Economy
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz 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 "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Business and Economy There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Business and Economy
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Business and Economy Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Business and Economy
Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Business and Economy The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Business and Economy
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 "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Business and Economy Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Business and Economy
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Business and Economy "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit 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, I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Business and Economy
"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Business and Economy "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Business and Economy
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Business and Economy In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Business and Economy
