"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Business and Economy Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Business and Economy
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Business and Economy
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "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) A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Business and Economy Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "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
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 The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Business and Economy Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre 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) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Business and Economy Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Business and Economy
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Business and Economy Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Business and Economy
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Business and Economy The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Man and wife make one fool. I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Business and Economy
Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Business and Economy "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Business and Economy
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Business and Economy Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Business and Economy
We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Business and Economy Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Business and Economy If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Business and Economy
