A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Business and Economy They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Business and Economy
If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Business and Economy Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Business and Economy
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Business and Economy Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Business and Economy
The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Business and Economy The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Business and Economy
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Business and Economy Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Business and Economy
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa 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 Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Business and Economy "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Business and Economy
"Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Business and Economy The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Business and Economy
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Business and Economy "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Business and Economy
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz 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 "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Business and Economy
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Business and Economy As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Business and Economy
