If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Business and Economy Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Business and Economy
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns 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 Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Business and Economy As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Business and Economy
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Business and Economy Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Business and Economy
Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Business and Economy Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Business and Economy
In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Business and Economy The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Business and Economy
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner 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 If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Business and Economy
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "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) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Business and Economy The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Business and Economy
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins 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 "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Business and Economy
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Business and Economy Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "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) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Business and Economy
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Business and Economy If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Business and Economy
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Business and Economy "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
