"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Business and Economy Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Business and Economy
Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Business and Economy The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Business and Economy
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb 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 He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Business and Economy Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Business and Economy
Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer 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 Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Business and Economy
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Business and Economy In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Business and Economy
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Business and Economy When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe "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) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Business and Economy
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Business and Economy "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 I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Business and Economy
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Business and Economy Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Business and Economy
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Business and Economy "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Business and Economy
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Business and Economy Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion 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
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker Business and Economy A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Business and Economy
