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Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) 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) Business and Economy Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Business and Economy
"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy
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 Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Business and Economy "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Business and Economy
"In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 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" He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Business and Economy Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Business and Economy
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) "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 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 Business and Economy "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Business and Economy
I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Business and Economy Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Business and Economy
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Business and Economy I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Business and Economy
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Business and Economy If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Business and Economy
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Business and Economy "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Business and Economy
A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Business and Economy "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Man and wife make one fool. We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin 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. Business and Economy Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Business and Economy
