Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Business and Economy In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Business and Economy
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Business and Economy "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe "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) The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Business and Economy
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise Business and Economy "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. 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 Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea 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 I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor 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 Business and Economy
"Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) 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 "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Business and Economy Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Business and Economy
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Business and Economy All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Business and Economy
"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Business and Economy Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Business and Economy
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Business and Economy
Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Business and Economy 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 My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Business and Economy
"Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Business and Economy In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler 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 "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Business and Economy
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Business and Economy Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Business and Economy
