"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Business and Economy The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Business and Economy
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Business and Economy Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Business and Economy
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Business and Economy "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Business and Economy
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Business and Economy Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock 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) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Business and Economy Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Business and Economy
A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Business and Economy There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Business and Economy
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Business and Economy Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Business and Economy
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Business and Economy Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Business and Economy
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) Business and Economy There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Business and Economy
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown 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 Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Business and Economy Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Business and Economy
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Business and Economy "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Business and Economy
