What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Business and Economy "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
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blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Business and Economy I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Business and Economy
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Business and Economy "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Business and Economy
>From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Business and Economy Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) 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 A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Business and Economy Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Business and Economy
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Business and Economy
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Business and Economy "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Business and Economy
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker 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 The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Business and Economy It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Business and Economy
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the 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 Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Business and Economy
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine 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 "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) 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 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
"Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Business and Economy We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Business and Economy
