Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Business and Economy There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Business and Economy
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Business and Economy The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Business and Economy
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Business and Economy Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Business and Economy
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
Business and Economy In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Business and Economy
"You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through 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 much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Business and Economy A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Business and Economy For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Business and Economy
This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Business and Economy "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Business and Economy
blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Man and wife make one fool. I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Business and Economy In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Business and Economy
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Business and Economy Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Business and Economy
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Business and Economy then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Business and Economy
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries Business and Economy "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Business and Economy
