"I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Business and Economy The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Business and Economy
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Business and Economy >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Business and Economy
"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Business and Economy
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Business and Economy Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Business and Economy
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Business and Economy "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Business and Economy
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Business and Economy It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Business and Economy
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Business and Economy Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
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blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Business and Economy
A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Business and Economy "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Business and Economy
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Business and Economy The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Business and Economy
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Business and Economy Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover 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 "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 Business and Economy
