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We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Business and Economy
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "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 Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Business and Economy
"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) The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Business and Economy "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Business and Economy
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Business and Economy "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "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, Business and Economy
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Business and Economy It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Business and Economy
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Business and Economy I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Business and Economy
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Business and Economy "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Business and Economy
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Business and Economy "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Business and Economy
My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Business and Economy The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Business and Economy
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Business and Economy A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. 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 Business and Economy
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Business and Economy I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Business and Economy
