The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Business and Economy "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Business and Economy
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Business and Economy Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Business and Economy
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Business and Economy
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Business and Economy 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 higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Business and Economy
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson 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 My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Business and Economy I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Business and Economy
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Business and Economy Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Business and Economy
Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Business and Economy "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Business and Economy
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous 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 The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Business and Economy Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Business and Economy
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Business and Economy I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "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) Business and Economy
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Business and Economy I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Business and Economy
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t 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 Business and Economy "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "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) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Business and Economy
