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Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan What's new? Most of my wife. Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Business and Economy The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Business and Economy
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Business and Economy We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Business and Economy
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Business and Economy I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Business and Economy
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 An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Business and Economy The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Business and Economy
Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Business and Economy Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Business and Economy
"When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Business and Economy
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Business and Economy Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Business and Economy
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Business and Economy Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Business and Economy
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Business and Economy Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Business and Economy
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Business and Economy There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Business and Economy
"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) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Business and Economy Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Business and Economy
