"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) 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 The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Business and Economy I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa 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. "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Business and Economy
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Business and Economy Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual 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 Business and Economy
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar 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 A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Business and Economy
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "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) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Business and Economy If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Business and Economy
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Business and Economy Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler 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 Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Business and Economy
"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins 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 Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Business and Economy My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Business and Economy
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Business and Economy "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
"It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Business and Economy "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Business and Economy
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin 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) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Business and Economy Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Business and Economy
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Business and Economy A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Business and Economy
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Business and Economy
