"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Business and Economy I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Business and Economy
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Business and Economy It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Business and Economy
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. "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) Business and Economy And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Business and Economy
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Business and Economy When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Business and Economy
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Business and Economy You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Business and Economy
Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi 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 Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Business and Economy
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Business and Economy
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Business and Economy One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Business and Economy
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Business and Economy blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Business and Economy
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce 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 Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Business and Economy Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Business and Economy
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Business and Economy When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Business and Economy
