"My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Business and Economy
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James 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 What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Business and Economy "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Business and Economy
Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Business and Economy My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Business and Economy
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) 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 If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Business and Economy
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Business and Economy The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 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 Business and Economy
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Business and Economy That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Business and Economy
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte 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 "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Business and Economy
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." Business and Economy Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Business and Economy
"If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Business and Economy You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Business and Economy
"Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Business and Economy "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Business and Economy
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Business and Economy Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov "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) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Business and Economy
