Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Business and Economy "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Business and Economy
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Business and Economy "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Business and Economy
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) May you never leave your marriage alive. Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Business and Economy 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 Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Business and Economy
"Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Business and Economy "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Business and Economy
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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.
-- Crowf Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Business and Economy My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Business and Economy
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) 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, Business and Economy Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Business and Economy
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland 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) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Business and Economy Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Business and Economy
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost 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 We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Business and Economy Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous 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 If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Business and Economy Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Business and Economy
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Business and Economy "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Business and Economy
