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Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Business Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Business
Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Business "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 Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Business
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Business Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Business
Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Business Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Business
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Business Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Business
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Business "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Business
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Business Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Business
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Business "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Business
Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law 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 Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Business
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Business We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Business
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Business The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Business
