Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Business and Economy "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Business and Economy
"I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Business and Economy I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Business and Economy
I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Business and Economy
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Business and Economy The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Business and Economy
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Business and Economy Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) Business and Economy
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Business and Economy May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Business and Economy
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 "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Business and Economy A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud Business and Economy
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Business and Economy Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Business and Economy
Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Business and Economy What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf "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) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Business and Economy
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Business and Economy "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Business and Economy
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell 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 Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Business and Economy I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Business and Economy
