What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Business and Economy I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Business and Economy
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Business and Economy "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Business and Economy
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Business and Economy He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Business and Economy
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 "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Business and Economy
Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Business and Economy In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Business and Economy
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Business and Economy "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Business and Economy
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Business and Economy No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Business and Economy
With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Business and Economy "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Business and Economy
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Business and Economy "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) 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 I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant Business and Economy
Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Business and Economy
