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Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Business and Economy "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Business and Economy
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "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) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Business and Economy 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 The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Business and Economy
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Business and Economy No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Business and Economy Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Business and Economy
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Business and Economy Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Business and Economy
"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Business and Economy "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Business and Economy
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Business and Economy Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Business and Economy Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Business and Economy
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Business and Economy I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Business and Economy
"There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje 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 a Business and Economy "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Business and Economy
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Business and Economy "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) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "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) Business and Economy
