"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Business and Economy The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Business and Economy
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Business and Economy I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Business and Economy
I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Business and Economy Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Business and Economy
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Business and Economy There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
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Sign in a marriage counselor's window: "Out to lunch - Think it over." America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Business and Economy MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Business and Economy
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Business and Economy Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Business and Economy
All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Business and Economy The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb 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) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Business and Economy "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Business and Economy
He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Business and Economy "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Business and Economy
Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous 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 When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Business and Economy
I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Business and Economy If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford 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
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