Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Business and Economy "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) 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 When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Business and Economy "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) 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 blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Business and Economy
Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Business and Economy Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Business and Economy
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Business and Economy In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Business and Economy
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Business and Economy "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Business and Economy
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Business and Economy The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Business and Economy
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Business and Economy I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Business and Economy
I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Business and Economy Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" "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) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Business and Economy
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Business and Economy Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Business and Economy
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Business and Economy Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth 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
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Business and Economy If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Business and Economy
