The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Business and Economy "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Business and Economy
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Business and Economy A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Business and Economy
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Business and Economy There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Business and Economy
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Business and Economy Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle 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 Business and Economy
Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. 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 This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Business and Economy In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Business and Economy
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Business and Economy blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Business and Economy
"Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Business and Economy The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Business and Economy
"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Business and Economy The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Business and Economy
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Business and Economy "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Business and Economy
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Business and Economy The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Business and Economy
