May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Business and Economy "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Business and Economy
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 What's new? Most of my wife. 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 There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Business and Economy Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Business and Economy
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Business and Economy Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Business and Economy
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Business and Economy I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Business and Economy
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Business and Economy The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo Business and Economy
The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Business and Economy "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy
If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Business and Economy When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy
There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Business and Economy The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. 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 It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Business and Economy 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 "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Business and Economy
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Business and Economy 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 "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Business and Economy
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Business and Economy The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Business and Economy
