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Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Business and Economy It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Business and Economy
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Business and Economy Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Business and Economy
A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Business and Economy "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Business and Economy
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare 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.
- Sir Winston Churchill 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 The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Business and Economy Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Business and Economy
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Business and Economy I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Business and Economy
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Business and Economy I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Business and Economy
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Business and Economy "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Business and Economy
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the May you never leave your marriage alive. Business and Economy A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "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) Business and Economy
"Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Business and Economy
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Business and Economy "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Business and Economy
