"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Business and Economy Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Business and Economy
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Business and Economy If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Business and Economy
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Business and Economy Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Business and Economy
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Business and Economy Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Business and Economy
"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Business and Economy I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
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Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Business and Economy I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Business and Economy
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Business and Economy Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Business and Economy
My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Business and Economy Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy
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 Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Business and Economy Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Business and Economy
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Business and Economy "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown 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 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) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Business and Economy
