I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. 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 husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Business and Economy Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Business and Economy
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Business and Economy Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Business and Economy
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Business and Economy Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Business and Economy
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Business and Economy One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Business and Economy
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Business and Economy
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) 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 Business and Economy You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "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 Business and Economy
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Business and Economy "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Business and Economy
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. "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Business and Economy We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Business and Economy
Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Business and Economy Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Business and Economy
May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Business and Economy Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "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) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Business and Economy
Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Business and Economy Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Business and Economy
