What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Business and Economy I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Business and Economy
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte 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 I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Business and Economy "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Business and Economy
"College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous 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 Business and Economy "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Business and Economy
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Business and Economy I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Business and Economy
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Business and Economy He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Business and Economy Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Business and Economy In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy
"The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Business and Economy "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Business and Economy
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Business and Economy What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Business and Economy
No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Business and Economy "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Business and Economy
Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Business and Economy The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Business and Economy
