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The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Business and Economy "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Business and Economy
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II 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 I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Business and Economy
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Business and Economy 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) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Business and Economy
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Business and Economy I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Business and Economy
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Business and Economy The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Business and Economy
"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Business and Economy
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Business and Economy "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright 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 Business and Economy
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Business and Economy The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Business and Economy
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Business and Economy "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Business and Economy
When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Business and Economy "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Business and Economy
I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Business and Economy The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Business and Economy
