"In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Business and Economy Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Business and Economy
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Business and Economy In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Business and Economy
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Business and Economy
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Business and Economy When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Business and Economy
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Business and Economy In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Business and Economy
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Business and Economy Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Business and Economy
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Business and Economy You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers 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 man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Business and Economy
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Business and Economy Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Business and Economy
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Business and Economy If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "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) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Business and Economy
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Business and Economy Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Business and Economy
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri 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 I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, "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) Business and Economy "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Business and Economy
