Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Business and Economy "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch 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 "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Business and Economy Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Business and Economy
"I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "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) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Business and Economy A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Business and Economy
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Business and Economy If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Business and Economy
"Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? Business and Economy Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Business and Economy
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Business and Economy Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words 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 Business and Economy
"The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Business and Economy I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "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) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Business and Economy
"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Business and Economy All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Business and Economy
It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Business and Economy Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Business and Economy
The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Business and Economy "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Business and Economy
The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Business and Economy Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Business and Economy
