"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Business and Economy Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Business and Economy
I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Business and Economy "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) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. 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 "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Business and Economy "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "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) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Business and Economy Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Business and Economy
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Business and Economy "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Business and Economy
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Business and Economy "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
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I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy 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 The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Business and Economy
"To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "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) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Business and Economy Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Business and Economy
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett 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 little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano 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 Business and Economy "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Business and Economy Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Business and Economy
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Business and Economy The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Man and wife make one fool. "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Business and Economy
