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Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. 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 "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Business and Economy "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Business and Economy
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Business and Economy "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Business and Economy
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Business and Economy Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "'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, Through the Looking Glass) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Business and Economy
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Business and Economy I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Business and Economy
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "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) "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Business and Economy "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Business and Economy
They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Business and Economy Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Business and Economy
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Business and Economy Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Business and Economy
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Business and Economy "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) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Business and Economy
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Business and Economy
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Business and Economy Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Business and Economy
