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Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Business and Economy A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Business and Economy
"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. 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 When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Business and Economy I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Business and Economy
It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "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, Alice in Wonderland Business and Economy Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Business and Economy
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Business and Economy Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Business and Economy Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Business and Economy
It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Business and Economy "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Business and Economy
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous 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 Business and Economy
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Business and Economy What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Business and Economy
Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot 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 coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Business and Economy A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Business and Economy
Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Business and Economy Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
"To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Business and Economy The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Business and Economy
