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Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- 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 My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Business and Economy "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Business and Economy
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Business and Economy The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. 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
blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Business and Economy "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Business and Economy
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board 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 Business and Economy 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 Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Business and Economy
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Business and Economy Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Business and Economy
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words 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 Business and Economy The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous 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 Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Business and Economy He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Business and Economy
You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Business and Economy Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Business and Economy
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Business and Economy Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Business and Economy
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Business and Economy To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Business and Economy "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Business and Economy
