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Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Business and Economy True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Business and Economy
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Business and Economy "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Business and Economy
"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 Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Business and Economy Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy
Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Business and Economy Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Business and Economy
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Business and Economy "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Business and Economy
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Business and Economy Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Business and Economy
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Business and Economy In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Business and Economy blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Business and Economy
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg Business and Economy Man and wife make one fool. Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Business and Economy
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Business and Economy The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Business and Economy
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Business and Economy Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
