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) "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 We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Business and Economy There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Business and Economy
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Business and Economy "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Business and Economy
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Business and Economy blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Business and Economy
This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Business and Economy "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 Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Business and Economy
"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Business and Economy The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Business and Economy
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Business and Economy
He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Business and Economy "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Business and Economy
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Business and Economy If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Business and Economy
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Business and Economy ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Business and Economy
My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Business and Economy The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Business and Economy
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "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) Business and Economy "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Business and Economy
