"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Business and Economy In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell 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 If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Business and Economy "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s 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 If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Business and Economy
If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Business and Economy The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Business and Economy
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) 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. The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Business and Economy "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Business and Economy
The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Business and Economy then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Business and Economy
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Business and Economy
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Business and Economy No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Business and Economy
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Business and Economy "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Business and Economy
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Business and Economy If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Business and Economy
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Business and Economy Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Business and Economy
