In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Business and Economy A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Business and Economy
"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "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) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "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) Business and Economy Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Business and Economy
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Business and Economy "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Business and Economy
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 "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Business and Economy No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Business and Economy
"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Business and Economy Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers 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." ( Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Business and Economy
Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Business and Economy If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy
I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Business and Economy Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Business and Economy
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Business and Economy An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Business and Economy
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Business and Economy Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Business and Economy
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Business and Economy
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Business and Economy "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Business and Economy
