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A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Financial "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) 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 I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Financial
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Financial "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Financial
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Financial I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "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) "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Financial
"This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Financial "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Financial
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Financial The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Financial
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Financial A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Financial
"I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi 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 "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) 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 Financial Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Financial
There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Financial Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Financial
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Financial "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Financial
"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 One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Financial The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Financial
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin 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 This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) 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 Financial Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Financial
