Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Business and Economy Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Business and Economy
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Business and Economy 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Business and Economy
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Business and Economy There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Business and Economy
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Business and Economy
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Business and Economy "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Business and Economy
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Business and Economy I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Business and Economy
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Business and Economy A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Business and Economy
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Business and Economy After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Business and Economy
Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Business and Economy Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Business and Economy
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Business and Economy We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Business and Economy
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words 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 Business and Economy I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Business and Economy
