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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Business and Economy He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Business and Economy
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Business and Economy Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Business and Economy
"The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Business and Economy
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Business and Economy In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Business and Economy I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Business and Economy
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Business and Economy America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Business and Economy
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Business and Economy Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Business and Economy
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Business and Economy "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) 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 Business and Economy
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 Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "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) Business and Economy Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Business and Economy
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Business and Economy "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Business and Economy
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.
-- Anonymous The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Business and Economy You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Business and Economy
