There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Business and Economy Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Business and Economy
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt 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 Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Business and Economy Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Business and Economy
An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Business and Economy "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Business and Economy
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Business and Economy Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Business and Economy
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Business and Economy "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Business and Economy
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Business and Economy The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa 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 Business and Economy
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Business and Economy It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Business and Economy
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Business and Economy "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Business and Economy
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Business and Economy Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Business and Economy
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch "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) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations 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 Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Business and Economy
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) 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 The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Business and Economy "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 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 CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
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