Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Business and Economy "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Business and Economy
Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "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 Business and Economy
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Business and Economy "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW 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 Business and Economy
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Business and Economy Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Business and Economy
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Business and Economy blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Business and Economy
I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "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) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Business and Economy The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Business and Economy
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Business and Economy I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Business and Economy
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Business and Economy The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Business and Economy
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Business and Economy 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 A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Business and Economy
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "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) Business and Economy A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Business and Economy
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Business and Economy Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
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