The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Business and Economy "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Business and Economy
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 I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President 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 And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Business and Economy We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Business and Economy
"If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Business and Economy The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Business and Economy
blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) 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 "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 because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Business and Economy Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Business and Economy
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. 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 Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Business and Economy I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "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 Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Business and Economy
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) 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 Business and Economy We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Business and Economy
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Business and Economy I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Business and Economy
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Business and Economy Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Business and Economy
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 I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Business and Economy Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Business and Economy
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Business and Economy your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Business and Economy
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Business and Economy "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Business and Economy
