That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Business and Economy
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Business and Economy "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Business and Economy
It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Business and Economy Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes 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 Business and Economy
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Business and Economy Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Business and Economy
Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Business and Economy "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Business and Economy
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "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) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Business and Economy I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Business and Economy
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Business and Economy Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Business and Economy
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Business and Economy
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Business and Economy You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Business and Economy
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Business and Economy If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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) Business and Economy
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Business and Economy How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Business and Economy
