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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Business and Economy
Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Business and Economy There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov 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
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President Business and Economy Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Business and Economy
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford Business and Economy "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers 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 "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Business and Economy
The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Business and Economy Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Business and Economy
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Business and Economy Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
"Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Business and Economy By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Business and Economy
"In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Business and Economy And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Business and Economy
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Business and Economy People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Business and Economy
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 When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Business and Economy The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Business and Economy
