blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Business and Economy "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Business and Economy
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Business and Economy The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Business and Economy Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Business and Economy
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "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) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett 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. Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Business and Economy I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Business and Economy
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Business and Economy I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Business and Economy
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Business and Economy When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Business and Economy
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Business and Economy The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Business and Economy
May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Business and Economy I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Business and Economy
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show 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 Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Business and Economy Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Business and Economy
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Business and Economy Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Business and Economy
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Business and Economy Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Business and Economy
