Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Business and Economy "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Business and Economy
"My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith 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 Business and Economy Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Business and Economy Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Business and Economy
Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French 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 Business and Economy All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Business and Economy
Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Business and Economy The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Business and Economy
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Business and Economy
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Business and Economy 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 Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Business and Economy
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem 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 He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Business and Economy Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Business and Economy
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Man and wife make one fool. blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Business and Economy Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Business and Economy
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Business and Economy Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Business and Economy
I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Business and Economy Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Business and Economy
