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But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Business and Economy "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Business and Economy
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Business and Economy blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Business and Economy
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Business and Economy "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Business and Economy
Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had
never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
-- Orison Swett Marden There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Business and Economy Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Business and Economy
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "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) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Business and Economy Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Business and Economy
"How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Business and Economy These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Business and Economy Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Business and Economy
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire 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 He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Business and Economy Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Business and Economy
The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Business and Economy blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Business and Economy
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Business and Economy I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Business and Economy
