Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Business and Economy A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Business and Economy
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Business and Economy He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Business and Economy
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Business and Economy Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Business and Economy
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone 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. A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Business and Economy A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Business and Economy
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Business and Economy You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Business and Economy
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) 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 It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth Business and Economy
"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Business and Economy Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Business and Economy
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Business and Economy "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
What's new? Most of my wife. The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Business and Economy Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. 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
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Business and Economy Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Business and Economy
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Business and Economy Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Business and Economy
