Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) 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 Business and Economy In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Business and Economy
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Business and Economy His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Business and Economy
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Business and Economy "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Business and Economy
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Business and Economy
"It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Business and Economy I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Business and Economy
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Business and Economy
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Business and Economy I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Business and Economy
Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Business and Economy "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Business and Economy
blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Business and Economy In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Business and Economy
"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Business and Economy Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Business and Economy
Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Business and Economy If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "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) Business and Economy
