Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "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) Business and Economy "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Business and Economy
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Business and Economy Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Business and Economy
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Business and Economy With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Business and Economy
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Business and Economy Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Business and Economy
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Business and Economy There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Business and Economy
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Business and Economy Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Business and Economy
"If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Business and Economy See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Business and Economy
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Business and Economy "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Business and Economy
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Business and Economy There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Business and Economy
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill "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 "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Business and Economy Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Business and Economy
I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Business and Economy Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Business and Economy
