A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat
guy in the third row exists?
-- Woody Allen Business and Economy "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Business and Economy
When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Business and Economy Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Business and Economy
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Business and Economy The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein 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 "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy 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
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Business and Economy Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Business and Economy
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Business and Economy "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Business and Economy
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 "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 For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Business and Economy blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Business and Economy
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "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 Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Business and Economy
The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Business and Economy Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (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 Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Business and Economy One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Business and Economy
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Business and Economy Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Business and Economy
