"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Business and Economy The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Business and Economy
A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "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) Business and Economy "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 When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Business and Economy
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) 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 My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Business and Economy There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Business and Economy
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Business and Economy Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Business and Economy
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Business and Economy "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Business and Economy
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Business and Economy Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner 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 Business and Economy
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Business and Economy
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Business and Economy
Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Business and Economy Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford Business and Economy
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Business and Economy
"Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Business and Economy My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Business and Economy
