Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Business and Economy
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Business and Economy If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Business and Economy
Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) 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 What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Business and Economy Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Business and Economy
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Business and Economy To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Business and Economy
Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D 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 Business and Economy It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel 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 Business and Economy
Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Business and Economy What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly Business and Economy
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Business and Economy When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Business and Economy
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Business and Economy Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Business and Economy
[You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Business and Economy Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Business and Economy
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Business and Economy Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Business and Economy
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Business and Economy "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Business and Economy
