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...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Business and Economy I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Business and Economy
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Business and Economy A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Business and Economy
I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Business and Economy "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy
Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Business and Economy What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Business and Economy
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Business and Economy Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Business and Economy
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Business and Economy "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Business and Economy
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Business and Economy "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) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Business and Economy
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Business and Economy The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Business and Economy
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Business and Economy I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Business and Economy "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Business and Economy
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa 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 Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Business and Economy "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Business and Economy
