"I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Business and Economy When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Business and Economy
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Business and Economy I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Business and Economy
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette "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 I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Business and Economy Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Business and Economy
"People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Business and Economy Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Business and Economy
"Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "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 Business and Economy My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Business and Economy
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Business and Economy My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Business and Economy
I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Business and Economy If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Business and Economy
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Business and Economy Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Business and Economy
I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife 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 He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "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 If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Business and Economy
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Business and Economy Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Business and Economy
"I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Business and Economy "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Business and Economy
