blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville 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 Business and Economy Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Business and Economy
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Business and Economy "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Business and Economy
"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) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "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) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Business and Economy "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Business and Economy
Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Business and Economy The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Business and Economy
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Business and Economy I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Business and Economy
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Business and Economy In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Business and Economy
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign 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) 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 If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Business and Economy
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Business and Economy Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Business and Economy
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Business and Economy We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. 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.
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