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A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Business and Economy "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Business and Economy
"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) "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Business and Economy Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Business and Economy
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Business and Economy The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Business and Economy
Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Business and Economy Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Business and Economy
"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 "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Business and Economy A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Business and Economy
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Business and Economy "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Business and Economy
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Business and Economy The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Business and Economy
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Business and Economy How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Business and Economy
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) 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, Business and Economy Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Business and Economy
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 May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Business and Economy Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Business and Economy
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Business and Economy "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Business and Economy
