A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey 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 These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Business and Economy The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Business and Economy
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Business and Economy I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
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"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Business and Economy Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Business and Economy
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Business and Economy Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Business and Economy
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Business and Economy "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Business and Economy
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Business and Economy Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) 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
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We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Business and Economy If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Business and Economy
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Business and Economy "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) Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Business and Economy
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Business and Economy If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Business and Economy
"I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Business and Economy The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Business and Economy
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Business and Economy "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Business and Economy
