The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Business and Economy The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Business and Economy
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Business and Economy People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Business and Economy
Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Anyway, 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,
ign "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Business and Economy An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Business and Economy
There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Business and Economy blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Business and Economy
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Business and Economy "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Business and Economy
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Business and Economy 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) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Business and Economy
"In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Business and Economy I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Business and Economy
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Business and Economy "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Business and Economy
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Business and Economy Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Business and Economy
If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Business and Economy Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Business and Economy
