When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Business and Economy I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Business and Economy
I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Business and Economy Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "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
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Business and Economy You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Business and Economy
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Business and Economy Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Business and Economy
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Business and Economy We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Business and Economy
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little "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) You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner 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 I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Business and Economy
Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. 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 can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Business and Economy "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Business and Economy
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) 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 Business and Economy We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Business and Economy
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Business and Economy "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Business and Economy
"I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Business and Economy Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Business and Economy
Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team 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 blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Business and Economy
