Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Business and Economy There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Business and Economy
What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Business and Economy Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Business and Economy
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Business and Economy Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Business and Economy
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Business and Economy We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Business and Economy
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Business and Economy
All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Business and Economy Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Business and Economy
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Business and Economy Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "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 Business and Economy
"Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Business and Economy Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Business and Economy
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 If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben 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 Business and Economy "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Business and Economy
Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Business and Economy What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Business and Economy
"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..." ( And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Business and Economy "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Business and Economy
