"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Business and Economy If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Business and Economy
"I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Business and Economy The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Business and Economy
Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Business and Economy The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Business and Economy
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Business and Economy Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Business and Economy
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Business and Economy The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "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) All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
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With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Business and Economy
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik 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 Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Business and Economy Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Business and Economy
blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Business and Economy Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
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A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. 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 Business and Economy Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Business and Economy
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
- Ian L. Fleming Business and Economy We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Business and Economy
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel 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 I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Business and Economy Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Business and Economy
