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Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Business and Economy The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort 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.
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Business and Economy No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Business and Economy Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Business and Economy
Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Business and Economy Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Business and Economy
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Business and Economy "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Business and Economy
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Business and Economy Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Business and Economy "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) 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 A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Business and Economy
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Business and Economy A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Business and Economy
Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) 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 Business and Economy Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Business and Economy
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch Business and Economy I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Business and Economy
"It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Business and Economy The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm 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 Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Business and Economy
