Project Youth - Selfemployment and young entrepreneurship in the Mediterranean Region.
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Business and Economy The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford 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 Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Business and Economy
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Business and Economy
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Business and Economy In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Business and Economy
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Business and Economy By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Business and Economy
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Business and Economy Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst "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) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Business and Economy
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Business and Economy Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Business and Economy
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain 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 A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Business and Economy
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Business and Economy "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Business and Economy
If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Business and Economy blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) 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 When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Business and Economy
