"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Business and Economy Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Business and Economy
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Business and Economy I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Business and Economy
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Business and Economy Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Business and Economy
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
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He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Business and Economy Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Business and Economy
"Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett 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.
-- 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 I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Business and Economy Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Business and Economy
"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Business and Economy "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Business and Economy Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Business and Economy
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Business and Economy Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Business and Economy
Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Business and Economy You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "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) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein 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 "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo 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 Business and Economy "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Business and Economy
