The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Business and Economy The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Business and Economy
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Business and Economy Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Business and Economy
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Business and Economy Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Business and Economy
"In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Business and Economy A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Business and Economy
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Business and Economy "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Business and Economy Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Business and Economy I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Business and Economy All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Business and Economy
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Business and Economy "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Business and Economy
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Business and Economy You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Business and Economy
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Business and Economy Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Business and Economy
