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Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Business and Economy See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers 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
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Business and Economy Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Business and Economy
You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Business and Economy I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Business and Economy
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Business and Economy I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Business and Economy
"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Business and Economy "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) I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Business and Economy
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Business and Economy If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Business and Economy
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "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) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Business and Economy I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Business and Economy
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Business and Economy The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Business and Economy
The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Business and Economy "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Business and Economy
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Business and Economy A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Business and Economy
Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Business and Economy I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Business and Economy
