Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Business and Economy The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Business and Economy
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Business and Economy I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Business and Economy
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Business and Economy Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Business and Economy
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Business and Economy Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Business and Economy
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Business and Economy "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) 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 This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Business and Economy
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Business and Economy 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 I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy
Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Business and Economy All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Business and Economy
Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Business and Economy "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Business and Economy
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Business and Economy Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Business and Economy
"Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Business and Economy I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Business and Economy
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) 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 Business and Economy "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "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." Business and Economy
