My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Business and Economy Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Business and Economy
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal 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 "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Business and Economy "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Business and Economy When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb 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 Business and Economy
Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Business and Economy A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Business and Economy Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Business and Economy
"Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit 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" I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Business and Economy 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
ha blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Business and Economy
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Business and Economy "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "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 Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy
"... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Business and Economy Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Business and Economy
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana "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 tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Business and Economy Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Business and Economy
We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Business and Economy Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Business and Economy
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy 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 Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Business and Economy
