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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "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) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Business to Business "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Business to Business
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Business to Business I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Business to Business
A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Business to Business "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Business to Business
Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Business to Business "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Business to Business
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Business to Business "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Business to Business
All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Business to Business When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Business to Business
"Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Business to Business Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business to Business
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa 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 The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Business to Business Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business to Business
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "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) 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 Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Business to Business Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Business to Business
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 Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Business to Business In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos Business to Business
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "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) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Business to Business Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Business to Business
