All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Business and Economy
"I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Business and Economy "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Business and Economy
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Business and Economy I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Business and Economy
"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, If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford 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 I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Business and Economy Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Business and Economy
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "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) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Business and Economy It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Business and Economy
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Business and Economy Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Business and Economy
Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Business and Economy A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Business and Economy
"You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Business and Economy "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol 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
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Business and Economy As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries 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 This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Business and Economy
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Business and Economy
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Business and Economy Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Business and Economy
