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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Business and Economy "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Business and Economy He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Business and Economy A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
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 "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Business and Economy "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Business and Economy "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Business and Economy
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "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) Business and Economy Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Business and Economy
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Business and Economy It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Business and Economy
No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Business and Economy "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Business and Economy
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Business and Economy Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Business and Economy
"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Business and Economy For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Business and Economy
I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) 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 Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Business and Economy Anyway, 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,
ign Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Business and Economy
