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I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Business and Economy A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Business and Economy
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 A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Business and Economy "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Business and Economy
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Business and Economy Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin Business and Economy
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Business and Economy Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Business and Economy
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Business and Economy It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr 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" No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Business and Economy
"I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Business and Economy We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Business and Economy
For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Business and Economy Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Business and Economy
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Business and Economy "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Business and Economy
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that 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 Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Business and Economy "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Business and Economy
Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Business and Economy Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Business and Economy
"Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Business and Economy Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Business and Economy
