A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Business and Economy There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Business and Economy
All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler 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 "... 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) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Business and Economy If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Business and Economy
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Business and Economy Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. 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 If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Business and Economy When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Business and Economy
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Business and Economy Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Business and Economy
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Business and Economy Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
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Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) 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 Business and Economy Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana 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 blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Business and Economy
Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Business and Economy "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Business and Economy
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Business and Economy If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
"Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Business and Economy We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Business and Economy
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Business and Economy Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Business and Economy
