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Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Business and Economy "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy
A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau "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, God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Business and Economy Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Business and Economy
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams 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 Business and Economy Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Business and Economy
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) 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 "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) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Business and Economy Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Business and Economy
If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Business and Economy Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Business and Economy
"The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Business and Economy In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Business and Economy
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Business and Economy You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Business and Economy
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one 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 You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Business and Economy It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Business and Economy
A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Business and Economy
An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Business and Economy "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Business and Economy
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Business and Economy Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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) Business and Economy
