We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Business and Economy I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Business and Economy
Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy What's new? Most of my wife. "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Business and Economy
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Business and Economy For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Business and Economy
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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, ignorance, g "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Business and Economy
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Think off-center." (George Carlin) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Business and Economy "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Business and Economy
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Business and Economy Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Business and Economy
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Business and Economy The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Business and Economy
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Business and Economy We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers 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 All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Business and Economy
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Business and Economy It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Business and Economy
Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Business and Economy "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Business and Economy
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Business and Economy
