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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer 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 I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Business and Economy Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Business and Economy
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Business and Economy I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Business and Economy
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Business and Economy "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) 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 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 The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Business and Economy "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Business and Economy
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Business and Economy "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) The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Business and Economy
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud 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 Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Business and Economy
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 I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Business and Economy "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Business and Economy
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Business and Economy You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Business and Economy
blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar 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 "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Business and Economy
Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Business and Economy Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz 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
"The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Business and Economy All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
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