Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Business and Economy "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Business and Economy
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman 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 When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Business and Economy ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Business and Economy
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Business and Economy "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. Business and Economy
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Business and Economy When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Business and Economy
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) 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 Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Business and Economy Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Business and Economy
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Business and Economy Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Business and Economy
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Business and Economy
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 wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Business and Economy Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Business and Economy
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Business and Economy Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 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
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Business and Economy Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Business and Economy
Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Business and Economy It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
