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) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Business to Business A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Business to Business
People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Business to Business If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Business to Business
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Business to Business Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Business to Business
A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Business to Business 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 Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Business to Business
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Business to Business Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Business to Business
Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Business to Business It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Business to Business
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Business to Business Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Business to Business
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.
- Sir Winston Churchill There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Business to Business "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Business to Business
When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Business to Business "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Business to Business
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "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) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Business to Business Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Business to Business
"There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) 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 Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Business to Business
