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You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Business and Economy Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
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Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Business and Economy Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Business and Economy
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Business and Economy
"A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Spinster: A bachelor's wife. I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Business and Economy Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Business and Economy
I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Business and Economy 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 Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Business and Economy
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
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In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Business and Economy "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Business and Economy
Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Business and Economy Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Business and Economy
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Business and Economy The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Business and Economy
"REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Business and Economy Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Business and Economy
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Business and Economy "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Business and Economy
