Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Business and Economy "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov 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
Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Business and Economy During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H Business and Economy
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Business and Economy It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Business and Economy
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Business and Economy True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Business and Economy He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Business and Economy
The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Business and Economy Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Business and Economy
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Business and Economy 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 "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Business and Economy
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Business and Economy For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Business and Economy
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. 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 I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Business and Economy
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Business and Economy "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) 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 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 Business and Economy
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Business and Economy Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Business and Economy
