Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Business and Economy Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Business and Economy
"People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Business and Economy "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) 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 "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Business and Economy
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Business and Economy Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Business and Economy
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Business and Economy "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Business and Economy
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Business and Economy "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Business and Economy
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Business and Economy We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Business and Economy
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Business and Economy "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) 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
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Business and Economy He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Business and Economy
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Business and Economy Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Business and Economy
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Business and Economy As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Business and Economy
I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Business and Economy "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Business and Economy
