Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi 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 Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke 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) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Business and Economy
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Business and Economy When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Business and Economy To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Business and Economy
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "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 There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Business and Economy Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Business and Economy
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 I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Business and Economy The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Business and Economy
Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Business and Economy blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Business and Economy
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- 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 Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous 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 Business and Economy Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Business and Economy
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Business and Economy Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Business and Economy
"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Business and Economy "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Business and Economy
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Business and Economy He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Business and Economy
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Business and Economy "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Business and Economy
