"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Business and Economy It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Business and Economy
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Business and Economy The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf 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 Business and Economy
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Business and Economy "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Business and Economy
"I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham 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 Business and Economy The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Business and Economy
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Business and Economy When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Business and Economy
"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Business and Economy Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith 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 In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Business and Economy
"Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Business and Economy What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Business and Economy Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Business and Economy
I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Business and Economy 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 Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Business and Economy
"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..." ( We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Business and Economy Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Business and Economy
"People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Business and Economy "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Business and Economy
