Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke 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 I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 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 If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Business and Economy Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Business and Economy
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Business and Economy Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert 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 Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Business and Economy "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Business and Economy
Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Business and Economy
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Business and Economy "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Business and Economy
"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Business and Economy Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy
If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Business and Economy
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Business and Economy To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Business and Economy
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "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 It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Business and Economy
blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Business and Economy Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Business and Economy
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Business and Economy For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Business and Economy
