Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Business and Economy
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Business and Economy "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Business and Economy
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Business and Economy When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Business and Economy Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "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) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Business and Economy
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Business and Economy "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Business and Economy
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov 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 To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Business and Economy
Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James 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 The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Business and Economy "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Business and Economy Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Business and Economy
"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Business and Economy
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Business and Economy Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Business and Economy
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Business and Economy "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Business and Economy
