"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Business and Economy Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Business and Economy There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Business and Economy
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Business and Economy "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Business and Economy
"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 Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Business and Economy When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Business and Economy
"I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Business and Economy
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley 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 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 "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Business and Economy "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Business and Economy
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Business and Economy "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 "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Business and Economy
"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Business and Economy Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Business and Economy
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi 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 To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Business and Economy 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 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) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Business and Economy
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Business and Economy Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Business and Economy
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Business and Economy We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Business and Economy
