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"To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Business and Economy "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) 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. A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Business and Economy
When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Business and Economy There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Business and Economy
"Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Business and Economy Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson The less their ability, the more their conceit.
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Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) 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' To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Business and Economy May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Business and Economy
Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Business and Economy "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Business and Economy
"No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Business and Economy The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Business and Economy
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes 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 "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Business and Economy I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin "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) Business and Economy
Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Business and Economy Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Business and Economy
Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Business and Economy If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Business and Economy
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Business and Economy Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Business and Economy
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 Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" 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 An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
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