A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Business and Economy If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
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 Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Business and Economy This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Business and Economy
Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Business and Economy He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Business and Economy
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Business and Economy The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Business and Economy "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Business and Economy
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy
In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Business and Economy "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) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Business and Economy
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Business and Economy Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Business and Economy
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Business and Economy Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Business and Economy
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Business and Economy Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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
If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers Business and Economy University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Business and Economy
