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In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Business and Economy "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Business and Economy
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Business and Economy It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Business and Economy
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Business and Economy In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
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 The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard Business and Economy By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Business and Economy
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Business and Economy Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Business and Economy
A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Business and Economy "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley 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 "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Business and Economy The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Business and Economy
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce Business and Economy Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Business and Economy
"Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Business and Economy The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Business and Economy
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Business and Economy "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Business and Economy
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Business and Economy When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra 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 Business and Economy
