"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg 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 None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Business and Economy You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Business and Economy
A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Business and Economy I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. 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. Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Business and Economy
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Business and Economy "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Business and Economy
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Business and Economy "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Business and Economy
The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Business and Economy By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Business and Economy
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz 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 Business and Economy Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. 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) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Business and Economy
"I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Business and Economy "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Business and Economy
"Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells "Think off-center." (George Carlin) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Business and Economy The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Business and Economy
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning 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 "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Business and Economy "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Business and Economy
"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Business and Economy Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Business and Economy
