Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Business and Economy Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou Business and Economy Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) 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
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Business and Economy Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Business and Economy
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Business and Economy I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "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 Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Business and Economy 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 A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Business and Economy
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Business and Economy 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 future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Business and Economy
Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Business and Economy My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Business and Economy
"Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac 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 Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Business and Economy If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones 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) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Business and Economy An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Business and Economy
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Business and Economy He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Business and Economy
