Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Business and Economy Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Business and Economy
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Business and Economy Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Business and Economy
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "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) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Business and Economy Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Business and Economy
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Business and Economy
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Business and Economy "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Business and Economy
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Business and Economy "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Business and Economy
Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Business and Economy If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Business and Economy Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Business and Economy
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz Business and Economy We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Business and Economy
The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Business and Economy Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan 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 "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Business and Economy
"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Business and Economy Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Business and Economy
