"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Business and Economy Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Business and Economy
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous 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 He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Business and Economy Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Business and Economy
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Business and Economy 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 Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Business and Economy
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Business and Economy Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Business and Economy
Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Business and Economy "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Business and Economy
Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Business and Economy 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 "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 "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Business and Economy
We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers 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) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Business and Economy 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 The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Business and Economy
"What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Business and Economy "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Business and Economy
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem 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 Business and Economy If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Business and Economy
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Business and Economy It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan 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 Business and Economy
Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Business and Economy Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Business and Economy
