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"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "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) Business and Economy I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "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) Business and Economy Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Business and Economy
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Business and Economy A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Business and Economy
Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Business and Economy
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Business and Economy Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Business and Economy
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Business and Economy You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Business and Economy
Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Business and Economy A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Business and Economy
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Business and Economy If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Business and Economy
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Business and Economy "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Business and Economy
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Business and Economy "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Business and Economy
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Business and Economy "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) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "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) Business and Economy
