I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Business and Economy A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Business and Economy
Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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 "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 Business and Economy Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Business and Economy
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Business and Economy Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Business and Economy
"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-) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Business and Economy 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.
-- Winston Churchill I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Business and Economy
For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Business and Economy When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Business and Economy
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Business and Economy Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Business and Economy
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Business and Economy "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Business and Economy
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Business and Economy Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Business and Economy
ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Business and Economy Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Business and Economy
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) 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 You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Business and Economy The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Business and Economy
blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Business and Economy
