A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Business and Economy "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Business and Economy
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Business and Economy In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Business and Economy
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Business and Economy People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Business and Economy
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Business and Economy You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "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) "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Business and Economy
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes 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 The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Business and Economy Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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,
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I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Business and Economy "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
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God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Business and Economy I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
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"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of 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 Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Business and Economy A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "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) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Business and Economy Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Business and Economy
Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Business and Economy It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Business and Economy
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 "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac 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 "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Business and Economy Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Business and Economy
