Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Business and Economy 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, All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Business and Economy The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Business and Economy
There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings 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 He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Business and Economy "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Business and Economy
We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Business and Economy Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Business and Economy
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Business and Economy The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Business and Economy
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Business and Economy He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Business and Economy
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Business and Economy When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
"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) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Business and Economy Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Business and Economy
"Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Business and Economy A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Business and Economy Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Business and Economy
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Business and Economy Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
