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When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Investment Clubs The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
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-- Salvador Dali Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Investment Clubs
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Investment Clubs Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Investment Clubs
"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Investment Clubs The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Investment Clubs
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Investment Clubs Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Investment Clubs
My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Investment Clubs We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Investment Clubs
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Investment Clubs Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Investment Clubs
"Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Investment Clubs Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
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"Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Investment Clubs The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
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-- Henry David Thoreau What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
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-- Douglas Coupland Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Investment Clubs
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 Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara 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 Investment Clubs "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Investment Clubs
Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 "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) Investment Clubs Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Investment Clubs
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Investment Clubs "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Investment Clubs