In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Lifford "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 Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Lifford
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Lifford "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Lifford
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Lifford "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Lifford
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Lifford When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Lifford
"Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Lifford Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Lifford
blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Lifford A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Lifford
Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Lifford I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Lifford
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Lifford I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Lifford
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Lifford Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Lifford
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Lifford blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "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 "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Lifford
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Lifford During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw 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? Lifford
