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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Business and Economy The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Business and Economy
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "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 Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Business and Economy
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst 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 Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Business and Economy Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Business and Economy
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Business and Economy If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Business and Economy
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Business and Economy "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Business and Economy
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Business and Economy Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Business and Economy
"I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Business and Economy Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Business and Economy
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Business and Economy
Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane 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 Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco 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 Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Business and Economy
.. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Business and Economy By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Business and Economy
