Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Business and Economy Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Business and Economy
"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde 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
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton 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 I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Business and Economy
"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Business and Economy The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. 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 Business and Economy
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Business and Economy Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Business and Economy
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Business and Economy Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Business and Economy
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Business and Economy "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Business and Economy
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Business and Economy The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Business and Economy
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Business and Economy Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Business and Economy
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Business and Economy
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Business and Economy Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Business and Economy
