Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Business and Economy "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Business and Economy
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Business and Economy Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Business and Economy
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Business and Economy Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Business and Economy
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Business and Economy
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Business and Economy Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Business and Economy
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Business and Economy Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Business and Economy If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Business and Economy
Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Business and Economy "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Business and Economy
Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Business and Economy You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Business and Economy
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Business and Economy "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Business and Economy
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Business and Economy A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Business and Economy
