Vihanti - Brief facts and advantages for entrepreneurs.
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Vihanti There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) 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 Vihanti
I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Vihanti If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Vihanti
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Vihanti The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Vihanti
I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Vihanti My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Vihanti
The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Vihanti People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Vihanti
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Vihanti Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Vihanti
When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler "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 It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Vihanti "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Vihanti
I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Vihanti Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist 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 A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Vihanti
"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Vihanti As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Vihanti
Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Vihanti 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Vihanti
"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Vihanti "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Vihanti
