Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Business and Economy In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Business and Economy
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Business and Economy A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Business and Economy
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns 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 Business and Economy Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Business and Economy
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Business and Economy
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell 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 Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Business and Economy Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Business and Economy
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Business and Economy "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Business and Economy
If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Business and Economy The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Business and Economy
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Business and Economy Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Business and Economy
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Business and Economy Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Business and Economy
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton 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.
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 Business and Economy Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Business and Economy
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Business and Economy Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Business and Economy
