Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Business and Economy Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Business and Economy
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Business and Economy "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Business and Economy
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Business and Economy To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
"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 "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) 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 Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Business and Economy I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Business and Economy
I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Business and Economy Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Business and Economy
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni 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 Business and Economy The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "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) Business and Economy Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure 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 all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Business and Economy
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Business and Economy 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 You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Business and Economy
"For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Business and Economy If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Business and Economy
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Business and Economy "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Business and Economy
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. 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 "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Business and Economy "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Business and Economy
