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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Business and Economy Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
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-- Susan Ertz When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
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Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Business and Economy May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Business and Economy
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Business and Economy All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Business and Economy
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Business and Economy "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Business and Economy
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Business and Economy Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Business and Economy It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Business and Economy
"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 We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Business and Economy The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
"Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Business and Economy Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Business and Economy
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "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) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
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"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Business and Economy Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Business and Economy
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Business and Economy "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Business and Economy
