"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) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Business and Economy 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 Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy
"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Business and Economy It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Business and Economy
"I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Business and Economy What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Business and Economy
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Business and Economy "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Business and Economy
"Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Business and Economy "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Business and Economy
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Business and Economy Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Business and Economy
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Business and Economy Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi 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 The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Business and Economy There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Business and Economy
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 "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Business and Economy A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Business and Economy
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "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 A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Business and Economy "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Business and Economy
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Business and Economy There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Business and Economy
