"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
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remember what Business and Economy Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Business and Economy
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Business and Economy "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Business and Economy
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Business and Economy If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Business and Economy
your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Business and Economy Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Business and Economy
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Business and Economy "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 Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Business and Economy
I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Business and Economy In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Business and Economy
Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Business and Economy "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Business and Economy
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Business and Economy Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Business and Economy
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Business and Economy He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Business and Economy
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Business and Economy If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "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) Business and Economy
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Business and Economy 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 I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Business and Economy
