It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen 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 I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Economic and Social Development "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Economic and Social Development
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Economic and Social Development Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Economic and Social Development
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Economic and Social Development I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Economic and Social Development
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Economic and Social Development No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Economic and Social Development
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 Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Economic and Social Development There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Economic and Social Development
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) Economic and Social Development Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Economic and Social Development
Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Economic and Social Development "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Economic and Social Development
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 Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Economic and Social Development Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Economic and Social Development
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Economic and Social Development A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Economic and Social Development
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Economic and Social Development "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Economic and Social Development
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Economic and Social Development Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Economic and Social Development
