Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "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) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Business and Corporate Law If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Business and Corporate Law
Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf "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 A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Business and Corporate Law "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Business and Corporate Law
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Business and Corporate Law Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye 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 Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Business and Corporate Law
"As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Business and Corporate Law There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Business and Corporate Law
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Business and Corporate Law I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Business and Corporate Law
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Business and Corporate Law Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Corporate Law
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Business and Corporate Law When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Business and Corporate Law
Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Business and Corporate Law And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Business and Corporate Law
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Business and Corporate Law Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Business and Corporate Law
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Business and Corporate Law 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 "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Business and Corporate Law
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Business and Corporate Law 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 I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Business and Corporate Law
