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-- Pancho Villa, dying words "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Business and Economy We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Business and Economy
We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time "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 I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Business and Economy
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 You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Business and Economy I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Business and Economy
"When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Business and Economy Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Business and Economy
Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Business and Economy Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Business and Economy
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Business and Economy A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Man and wife make one fool. Business and Economy
Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Business and Economy Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Business and Economy
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
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-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Business and Economy The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Business and Economy
It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Business and Economy
"To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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,
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Business and Economy I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Business and Economy
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Business and Economy Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Business and Economy
