He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Business and Economy The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Business and Economy
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Business and Economy I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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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 "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Business and Economy
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Business and Economy Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Business and Economy
No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Business and Economy Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" 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) Business and Economy
My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Business and Economy Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. "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) Business and Economy
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Business and Economy "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Business and Economy
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Business and Economy Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 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 Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Business and Economy
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Business and Economy A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Business and Economy
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Business and Economy Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Business and Economy
