A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Business and Economy "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Business and Economy
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Business and Economy
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne Business and Economy There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Business and Economy
Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Business and Economy Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Business and Economy
The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France 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 "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) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Business and Economy
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Business and Economy 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 "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Business and Economy
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Business and Economy Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Business and Economy
Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Business and Economy Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Business and Economy
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) 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, I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Business and Economy "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Business and Economy
In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Business and Economy If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Business and Economy
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger 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 And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Business and Economy "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
