The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "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) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Business and Economy Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Business and Economy
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Business and Economy "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Business and Economy
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Business and Economy Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Business and Economy
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Business and Economy The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Business and Economy
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "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 "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Business and Economy
"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Business and Economy Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Business and Economy
"I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Business and Economy "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. Business and Economy
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Business and Economy Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Business and Economy
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Business and Economy "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Business and Economy
I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Business and Economy The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein 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 Business and Economy
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Business and Economy Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Business and Economy
