If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Business and Economy University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Business and Economy Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Business and Economy
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Business and Economy The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Business and Economy
Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Business and Economy We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Business and Economy
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Business and Economy Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "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
Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller "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 Business and Economy Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Business and Economy
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Business and Economy Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Business and Economy
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld 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 "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Business and Economy
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Business and Economy All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Business and Economy
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Business and Economy Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Business and Economy
"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 Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Business and Economy "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy
