The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Business and Economy What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Business and Economy
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Business and Economy 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 A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein 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 In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson 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) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Business and Economy
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Business and Economy Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Business and Economy
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Business and Economy Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) 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 Business and Economy
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Business and Economy Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Business and Economy
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Business and Economy "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Business and Economy
Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Business and Economy If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Business and Economy
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Business and Economy He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Business and Economy "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Business and Economy
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Business and Economy Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Business and Economy
