"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Business and Economy I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Business and Economy
"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Business and Economy "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Business and Economy
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers "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) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Business and Economy "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Business and Economy
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 less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Business and Economy The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Business and Economy
When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Business and Economy Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Business and Economy
Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Business and Economy We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Business and Economy
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Business and Economy
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Business and Economy
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha 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) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Business and Economy 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 "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Business and Economy I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Business and Economy
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa 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.
If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Business and Economy He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Business and Economy
