Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Business and Economy Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Business and Economy
"The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Business and Economy Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Business and Economy
There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Business and Economy It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Business and Economy
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Business and Economy
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great 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) "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) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Business and Economy
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Business and Economy Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Business and Economy
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? 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 When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Business and Economy Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Business and Economy
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson 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 I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Business and Economy You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Business and Economy
And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Business and Economy I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Business and Economy
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 Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Business and Economy Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Business and Economy
