I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Business and Economy The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Business and Economy
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "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, Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Business and Economy "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House Business and Economy
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) 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 "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Business and Economy
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Business and Economy "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley Business and Economy
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Business and Economy The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Business and Economy A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Business and Economy
All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Business and Economy Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Business and Economy
"We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Business and Economy "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) Business and Economy
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Business and Economy "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Business and Economy
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Business and Economy "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Business and Economy
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos 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 The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Business and Economy Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Business and Economy
