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"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) 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 Buyers Guides "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Buyers Guides
"Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Buyers Guides A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "Think off-center." (George Carlin) More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Buyers Guides
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Buyers Guides "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Buyers Guides
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Buyers Guides Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Buyers Guides
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Buyers Guides This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Buyers Guides
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper 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 Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Buyers Guides A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Buyers Guides
We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Buyers Guides If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Buyers Guides
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) 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 "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Buyers Guides Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Buyers Guides
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Buyers Guides I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Buyers Guides
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge 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 The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Buyers Guides Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Buyers Guides
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Buyers Guides Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Buyers Guides
