The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Business and Economy Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Business and Economy
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Business and Economy I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Business and Economy
blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Business and Economy Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Business and Economy
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "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 A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Business and Economy Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde 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
The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Business and Economy "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Business and Economy
If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Business and Economy Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Business and Economy Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher 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 Business and Economy
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Business and Economy "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Business and Economy
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Business and Economy As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Business and Economy
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy 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 "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Business and Economy
"When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Business and Economy That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Business and Economy
