Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Business and Economy "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Business and Economy
Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White 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 It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington 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 Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
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If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Business and Economy If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Business and Economy
We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Business and Economy Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little 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 Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Business and Economy
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Business and Economy "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Business and Economy
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Business and Economy "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Business and Economy The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Business and Economy
"...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Business and Economy "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Business and Economy
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Business and Economy The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Business and Economy
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton 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 Business and Economy I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
