Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Business and Economy "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Business and Economy
Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Business and Economy The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Business and Economy Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Business and Economy
It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Business and Economy
"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Business and Economy We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "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
I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett "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) Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Business and Economy Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas Business and Economy
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Business and Economy "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity 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.
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"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Business and Economy 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 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 "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Business and Economy
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Business and Economy Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde 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
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Business and Economy The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Business and Economy
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Business and Economy "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Business and Economy
