You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Business and Economy
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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 A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Business and Economy Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Business and Economy
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Business and Economy Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Business and Economy
In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "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) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Business and Economy They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Business and Economy Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Business and Economy
"Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Business and Economy "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Business and Economy
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Business and Economy The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Business and Economy
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier 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 Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Business and Economy Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Business and Economy
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "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) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Business and Economy Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Business and Economy
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx 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 "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Business and Economy Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "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 I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy
When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Business and Economy Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Business and Economy
