The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Business to Business Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Business to Business
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Business to Business "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Business to Business
then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Business to Business Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Business to Business
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Business to Business Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Business to Business
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Business to Business "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Business to Business
"Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Business to Business A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Business to Business
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Business to Business I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Business to Business
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Business to Business "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Business to Business
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Business to Business Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Business to Business
Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Business to Business Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous Business to Business
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Business to Business If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery Business to Business
