Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Business and Economy "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Business and Economy
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Business and Economy The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Business and Economy
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Business and Economy "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) Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Business and Economy
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Business and Economy One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Business and Economy
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Business and Economy We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Business and Economy
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Business and Economy Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Business and Economy
God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Business and Economy The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Business and Economy
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Business and Economy
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 "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Business and Economy "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Business and Economy
Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Business and Economy I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Business and Economy
"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, A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Business and Economy Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Business and Economy
