I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Business and Economy "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Business and Economy
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "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 Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Business and Economy Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Business and Economy
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Business and Economy It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Business and Economy
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 I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Business and Economy
blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) 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 Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Business and Economy "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Business and Economy
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Business and Economy If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin 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 When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Business and Economy
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Business and Economy Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Business and Economy
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Business and Economy You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War 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 Business and Economy
It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Business and Economy Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Business and Economy
Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart 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 What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Business and Economy Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Business and Economy
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Business and Economy My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Business and Economy
