Ministry of Economics - State governmental operations highlights of the department which works with economic, financial and infrastructural issues.
Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Government In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Government
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Government Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Government
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Government I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Government
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Government "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Government
Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Government
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Government Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Government
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Government "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Government
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Government "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Government
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Government No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Government
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Government Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Government
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "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) Government "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere 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 Government
