Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Business and Economy There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Business and Economy
No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Business and Economy The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
"God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Business and Economy My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Business and Economy
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Business and Economy The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf 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 Business and Economy
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Business and Economy "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Business and Economy
"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Business and Economy Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Business and Economy
May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Business and Economy I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Business and Economy
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Business and Economy If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous 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 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
If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Business and Economy Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Business and Economy
I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Business and Economy "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
"Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Business and Economy "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Business and Economy
