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-- James Baldwin As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Business to Business I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Business to Business
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the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Business to Business "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) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. Business to Business
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Business to Business One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Business to Business
I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Business to Business Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Business to Business
And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Business to Business Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Business to Business
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 "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Business to Business The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Business to Business
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Business to Business But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Business to Business
Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Business to Business For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Business to Business
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Business to Business A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Business to Business
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Business to Business Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Business to Business
Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Business to Business "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
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