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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Business and Economy Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Business and Economy
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Business and Economy I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Business and Economy
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Business and Economy Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Business and Economy
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 Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti 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 "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Business and Economy Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West Business and Economy
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Business and Economy The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Business and Economy
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" "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Business and Economy "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) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Business and Economy
A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Business and Economy Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Business and Economy
Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Business and Economy My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Business and Economy Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Business and Economy
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Business and Economy The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
