Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner 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 Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Business and Economy "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker 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 Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Business and Economy
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi 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 Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Business and Economy "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Business and Economy
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Business and Economy "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Business and Economy
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch 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 If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Business and Economy "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Business and Economy
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Business and Economy I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Business and Economy
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Business and Economy
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Business and Economy "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
"Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Business and Economy In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler 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 Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Business and Economy My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Business and Economy
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Business and Economy My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Business and Economy
