The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Business Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Business
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "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 Business "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Business
Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Business "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) 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 We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Business
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Business I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Business
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb 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 "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 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 Business "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Business
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Business The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Business
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Business "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Business
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Business "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Business
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Business Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Business
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard 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 We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Business "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) 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 We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Business
It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "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) Business To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Business
