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Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Business and Economy
"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) Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Business and Economy
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman 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 "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso 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) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Business and Economy
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Business and Economy The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Business and Economy
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Business and Economy When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Business and Economy
"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) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford 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 "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Business and Economy I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Business and Economy
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Business and Economy 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 Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Business and Economy Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Business and Economy
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Business and Economy "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Business and Economy
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Business and Economy "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Business and Economy
