Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Business to Business Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Business to Business
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Business to Business I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Business to Business
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Business to Business "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Business to Business
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Business to Business "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Business to Business
"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Business to Business "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Business to Business
Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Business to Business Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Business to Business
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Business to Business I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Business to Business
A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Business to Business No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Business to Business
Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Business to Business If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti 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 There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Business to Business
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Business to Business Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business to Business
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) 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, The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Business to Business Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "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) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Business to Business
