It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Business and Economy Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Business and Economy
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Business and Economy Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Business and Economy
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) 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 Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen 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 Business and Economy I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Business and Economy
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Business and Economy If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Business and Economy
blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Business and Economy I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Business and Economy
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Business and Economy We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Business and Economy
"College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Business and Economy No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Business and Economy
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Business and Economy Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Business and Economy
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Business and Economy "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Business and Economy
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz 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. Business and Economy All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Business and Economy
Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Business and Economy
