The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Business and Economy Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Business and Economy
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Business and Economy It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) Business and Economy
In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Business and Economy "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is a rest period between romances. Business and Economy
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Business and Economy "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Business and Economy
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Business and Economy Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Business and Economy
Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Business and Economy You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Business and Economy
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Business and Economy I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Business and Economy
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Business and Economy Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Business and Economy
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Business and Economy "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Business and Economy
"Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Business and Economy A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Business and Economy
