There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Business and Economy I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Business and Economy
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Business and Economy He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Business and Economy
"People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Business and Economy Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Business and Economy
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I 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 If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Business and Economy 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 Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
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"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) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Business and Economy Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Business and Economy
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Business and Economy "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Business and Economy
They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "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 Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Business and Economy A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Business and Economy
It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin 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 He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Business and Economy Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Business and Economy
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Business and Economy "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Business and Economy
You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Business and Economy The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Business and Economy
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Business and Economy And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
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