The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Business and Economy Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter 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
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Business and Economy "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Business and Economy
"The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Business and Economy Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Business and Economy
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Business and Economy True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Business and Economy
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Business and Economy "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Business and Economy
2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Business and Economy They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Business and Economy
Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Business and Economy There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Business and Economy
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Business and Economy Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead 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 Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Business and Economy
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Business and Economy Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Business and Economy
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Business and Economy Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) 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 English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Business and Economy You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Business and Economy
