Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Business and Economy What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Business and Economy
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins 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 Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban 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 The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Business and Economy 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Business and Economy
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Business and Economy Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Business and Economy Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Business and Economy
He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Business and Economy Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy
No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham 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 We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Business and Economy "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Business and Economy
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Business and Economy Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Business and Economy
"What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Business and Economy Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Business and Economy
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Business and Economy The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Business and Economy
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Business and Economy "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Business and Economy
