"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Business and Economy Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Business and Economy
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Business and Economy My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Business and Economy
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Business and Economy 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 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, Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. 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" >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Business and Economy
A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Business and Economy
Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Business and Economy Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Business and Economy
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Business and Economy blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Business and Economy
Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim 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 Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Business and Economy Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West Business and Economy "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Business and Economy
"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 am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "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." I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Business and Economy No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) 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
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? 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 Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Business and Economy
