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Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Business and Economy Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Business and Economy
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Business and Economy Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Business and Economy The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Business and Economy
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Business and Economy Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Business and Economy
The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Business and Economy No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Business and Economy
"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Business and Economy
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "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) Business and Economy then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Business and Economy
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Business and Economy
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Business and Economy
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Business and Economy Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Business and Economy
Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "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) Business and Economy
