There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Business and Economy "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' 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 "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Business and Economy
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Business and Economy To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Business and Economy We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Business and Economy
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Business and Economy This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton 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 Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Business and Economy "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Business and Economy
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Business and Economy Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Business and Economy
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Business and Economy "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Business and Economy
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Business and Economy 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) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Business and Economy
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Business and Economy The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash 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
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Business and Economy Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Business and Economy
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Business and Economy "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Business and Economy
