Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Business and Economy When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Business and Economy
"To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Business and Economy Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Business and Economy
To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Business and Economy A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Business and Economy When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Business and Economy
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Business and Economy blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Business and Economy
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Business and Economy In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Business and Economy
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Business and Economy A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Business and Economy
"Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Business and Economy Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Business and Economy
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 ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Business and Economy
"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Business and Economy It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Business and Economy
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Business and Economy Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Business and Economy
