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The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. Business and Economy Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Business and Economy
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Business and Economy Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Business and Economy
"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Business and Economy Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Business and Economy
"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) Business and Economy "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Business and Economy
"It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) 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 When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Business and Economy
Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Business and Economy Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Business and Economy Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Business and Economy
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Business and Economy Spinster: A bachelor's wife. "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl Business and Economy
Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Business and Economy 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 Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Business and Economy
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Business and Economy If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Business and Economy
