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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Investing The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Investing
blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Investing I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Investing
What's new? Most of my wife. Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Investing The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Investing
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Investing 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" We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Investing
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Investing How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Investing
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Investing In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Investing
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 If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Investing You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Investing
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Investing Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Investing
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Investing The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Investing
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Investing There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Investing
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Investing The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Investing
