Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol 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 Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed 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 There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Business and Economy My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Business and Economy
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Business and Economy My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Business and Economy
"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Business and Economy "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Business and Economy
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Business and Economy Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Business and Economy
We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Business and Economy I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Business and Economy
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "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) blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Business and Economy Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Business and Economy
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Business and Economy Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Business and Economy "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Business and Economy
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 Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Business and Economy It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Business and Economy
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Business and Economy Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Business and Economy
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau 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" Business and Economy "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Business and Economy
