I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Business and Economy "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Business and Economy
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Business and Economy
The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Business and Economy Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Business and Economy
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Business and Economy "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Business and Economy
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Business and Economy Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Business and Economy
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "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 There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Business and Economy When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Business and Economy Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Business and Economy
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Business and Economy 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 Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Business and Economy
For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Business and Economy
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) 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 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 Business and Economy Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Business and Economy
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Business and Economy Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Business and Economy
