There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Business and Economy We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Business and Economy
It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Business and Economy
"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Business and Economy "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Business and Economy
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Business and Economy Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Business and Economy
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Business and Economy The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Business and Economy
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Business and Economy
I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Business and Economy "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "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) Business and Economy
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Business and Economy A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Business and Economy When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Business and Economy
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Business and Economy Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Business and Economy
"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Business and Economy "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
