The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Business and Economy "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) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Business and Economy
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Business and Economy The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Business and Economy
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Business and Economy "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues "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
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Business and Economy I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Business and Economy
"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) "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Business and Economy
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Business and Economy A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Business and Economy A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal 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 Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Business and Economy
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Business and Economy "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Business and Economy
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Business and Economy Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Business and Economy
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler 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 He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Business and Economy Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Business and Economy
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Business and Economy No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan 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 They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
