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Monarch Cash Registers - Sellers of tills and cash registers. Photos and details of products.
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The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Business and Economy Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Business and Economy
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov 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 I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Business and Economy When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Business and Economy
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Business and Economy I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Business and Economy
blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Business and Economy Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer 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 Business and Economy
"Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. "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) Business and Economy
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Business and Economy The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Business and Economy
blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) 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 I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay Business and Economy Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Business and Economy
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "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 Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Business and Economy
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Business and Economy Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Business and Economy
"I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Business and Economy Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Business and Economy
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Business and Economy No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Business and Economy
