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Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Business and Economy How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Marriage is a rest period between romances. Business and Economy
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "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) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Business and Economy Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Business and Economy
He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Business and Economy It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Business and Economy
blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 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 "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Business and Economy
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Business and Economy Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) 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
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"In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Business and Economy "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Business and Economy
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Business and Economy If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Business and Economy
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Business and Economy Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Business and Economy
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Business and Economy Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Business and Economy
When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain 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 Business and Economy Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Business and Economy
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Business and Economy Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Business and Economy
