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In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Business and Economy "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Business and Economy
A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Business and Economy Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Business and Economy
"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "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) Business and Economy "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Business and Economy
Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Business and Economy Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Business and Economy
Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Business and Economy Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Business and Economy
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Business and Economy Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Business and Economy
"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Business and Economy "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) 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 A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Business and Economy Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Business and Economy
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Business and Economy I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Business and Economy
"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) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Business and Economy Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Business and Economy
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Business and Economy The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Business and Economy
