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Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Business and Economy Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Business and Economy
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. 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 Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Business and Economy 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 I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Business and Economy
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Business and Economy Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Business and Economy
>From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Business and Economy I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein 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 "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Business and Economy
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Business and Economy The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Business and Economy
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Business and Economy I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Business and Economy
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Business and Economy Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Business and Economy
They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Business and Economy
If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Business and Economy What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Business and Economy
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Business and Economy The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Business and Economy
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Business and Economy 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 "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Business and Economy
