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What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Business and Economy "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Business and Economy
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Business and Economy You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Business and Economy
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Business and Economy There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 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
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) 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 You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Business and Economy The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr 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) Business and Economy
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Business and Economy The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Business and Economy
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire 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) "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Business and Economy Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Business and Economy Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Business and Economy
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Business and Economy Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte 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
I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Business and Economy I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Business and Economy
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes 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 We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Business and Economy "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Business and Economy
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 In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Business and Economy "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Business and Economy
