Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Business and Economy Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Business and Economy
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Business and Economy This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl 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 She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Business and Economy
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Business and Economy "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Business and Economy
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Business and Economy It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Business and Economy
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "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) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley Business and Economy "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Business and Economy
Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Business and Economy People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Business and Economy
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "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 Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Business and Economy Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Business and Economy
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray 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 "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) Business and Economy Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Business and Economy
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Business and Economy Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Business and Economy
It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Business and Economy I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Business and Economy
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 It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner "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) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Business and Economy Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Business and Economy
