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live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Business and Economy To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Business and Economy
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana 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 We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Business and Economy Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Business and Economy
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Business and Economy There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
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-- Barbara Howar In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Business and Economy
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
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-- Paul Valery Business and Economy
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee 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 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
hung Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Business and Economy You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein 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 "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Business and Economy I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Business and Economy
That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Business and Economy I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford 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 And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. 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) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Business and Economy He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Business and Economy
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon 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 Business and Economy My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Business and Economy
"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Business and Economy Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Business and Economy
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Business and Economy Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason 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 blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Business and Economy
