To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Business and Economy Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Business and Economy
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Business and Economy Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Business and Economy
I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Business and Economy When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Business and Economy
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "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) Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Business and Economy A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi 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 Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Business and Economy
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Business and Economy "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Business and Economy
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Business and Economy It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "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 If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Business and Economy
"An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Business and Economy
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Business and Economy If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Business and Economy
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Business and Economy When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Business and Economy
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 "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Business and Economy The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Business and Economy
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Business and Economy They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Business and Economy
