I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Business and Economy "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Business and Economy
Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Business and Economy Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Business and Economy 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 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 We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Business and Economy
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Business and Economy 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 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 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 Business and Economy
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Business and Economy "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Business and Economy
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Business and Economy Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Business and Economy
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Business and Economy "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Business and Economy
"We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Business and Economy You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Business and Economy
I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Business and Economy Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Business and Economy
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Business and Economy This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Business and Economy
"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Business and Economy The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Business and Economy
