I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Business and Economy I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Business and Economy
I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Business and Economy blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Business and Economy
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Business and Economy I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Business and Economy
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle "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) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Business and Economy We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Business and Economy We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Business and Economy
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Business and Economy Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Business and Economy
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Business and Economy "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Business and Economy
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Business and Economy
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Business and Economy "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Business and Economy
Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Business and Economy "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha 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 Business and Economy
"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel "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) Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Business and Economy "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
