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I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Business and Economy The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Business and Economy
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Business and Economy "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Business and Economy
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Marriage is a rest period between romances. You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Business and Economy "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Business and Economy
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Business and Economy Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Business and Economy
"Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Business and Economy Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Business and Economy
"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Business and Economy We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Business and Economy
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) 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 Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Business and Economy 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 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 Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Business and Economy
Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Business and Economy Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Business and Economy
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "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 A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Business and Economy "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Business and Economy
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Business and Economy "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Business and Economy
"The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Business and Economy By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Business and Economy
