Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Business and Economy Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Business and Economy
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Business and Economy Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham 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 Business and Economy
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Business and Economy Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Business and Economy
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein "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) 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 The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Business and Economy
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Business and Economy It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Business and Economy Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Business and Economy
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Business and Economy I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Business and Economy
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Business and Economy "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Business and Economy
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Business and Economy "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 Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Business and Economy The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Business and Economy
This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Business and Economy Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Business and Economy
