"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp 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 There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Business and Economy Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Business and Economy
A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Business and Economy I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Business and Economy
"I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Business and Economy "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Business and Economy
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) 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 Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Business and Economy Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Business and Economy
"The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Business and Economy A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Business and Economy
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Business and Economy Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice "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) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Business and Economy "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Business and Economy
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Business and Economy "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Business and Economy
"How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Business and Economy
"My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk 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 Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Business and Economy Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Business and Economy
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 Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Business and Economy A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Business and Economy
