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"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "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 "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 "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy
"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 As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "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 I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Business and Economy
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Business and Economy Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Business and Economy
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Business and Economy "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Business and Economy
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Business and Economy Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Business and Economy
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Business and Economy "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Business and Economy
If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Business and Economy A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Business and Economy
However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Business and Economy Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Business and Economy
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Business and Economy I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Business and Economy
"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Business and Economy Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Business and Economy
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters 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 Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Business and Economy If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing 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 Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Business and Economy
