Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) 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 I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Business and Economy It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Business and Economy
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Business and Economy Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Business and Economy
Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Business and Economy
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Business and Economy I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Business and Economy
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Business and Economy 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 "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Business and Economy
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Business and Economy Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Business and Economy
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Business and Economy A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde 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 The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Business and Economy
"I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Business and Economy blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Business and Economy
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Business and Economy An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Business and Economy
Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Business and Economy Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Business and Economy
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Business and Economy Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Business and Economy
