If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Real Estate "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Real Estate
"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Real Estate I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Real Estate
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Real Estate Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Real Estate
"Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Real Estate Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Real Estate
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Real Estate 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 "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Real Estate
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Real Estate The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Real Estate
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) 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.
-- Crow Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Real Estate blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Real Estate
Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Real Estate My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Real Estate
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Real Estate "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Real Estate
Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Real Estate By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Real Estate
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Real Estate Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Real Estate
