In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Government If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "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) Government
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Government 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 "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Government
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Government "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Government
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Government We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Government
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Government Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Government
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Government The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Government
I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Government Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Government
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman 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 Government The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Government
Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) 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 The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Government Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Government
"I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Government I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Government
I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire "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) Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst Government My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Government
