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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Business and Economy There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Business and Economy
"To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Business and Economy When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Business and Economy
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead 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 "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Business and Economy Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Business and Economy
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Business and Economy You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Business and Economy
There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Business and Economy "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) 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 Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Business and Economy What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
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Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Spinster: A bachelor's wife. your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Business and Economy For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Business and Economy "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
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"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Business and Economy
"My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Business and Economy "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Business and Economy