Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Business and Economy May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Business and Economy "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Business and Economy
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- 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) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) Business and Economy The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Business and Economy
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 "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) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Business and Economy "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Business and Economy
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Business and Economy "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Business and Economy
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Business and Economy There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Business and Economy
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Business and Economy blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Business and Economy
When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Business and Economy I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Business and Economy
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Business and Economy Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Business and Economy
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Business and Economy "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Business and Economy
blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Business and Economy Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Business and Economy
