My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician 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 "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Business and Economy
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Business and Economy
your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those
that break down, and those that get lost.
-- Russell Baker "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Business and Economy The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Business and Economy
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Business and Economy Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Business and Economy
"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "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, "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Business and Economy I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Business and Economy
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Business and Economy It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Business and Economy
The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Business and Economy
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Business and Economy In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Business and Economy
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) 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 When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Business and Economy
"Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Business and Economy Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Business and Economy
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Business and Economy Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
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