The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Business and Economy That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Business and Economy
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Business and Economy God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison Business and Economy
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Business and Economy
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) 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 "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Business and Economy It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Business and Economy
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill My other wife is beautiful. History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Business and Economy Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Business and Economy
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain 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 "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Business and Economy Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Business and Economy
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Business and Economy The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Business and Economy
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. 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 There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Business and Economy
The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Business and Economy A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Business and Economy
Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Business and Economy The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur 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 Business and Economy
Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Business and Economy Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Marriage is a rest period between romances. Business and Economy
