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No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Business and Economy To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Business and Economy
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian 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 "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Business and Economy "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Business and Economy
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless Business and Economy In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Business and Economy
If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Business and Economy God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Business and Economy
It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Business and Economy The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm "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) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Business and Economy
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "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 is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Business and Economy "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Business and Economy
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Business and Economy Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Business and Economy
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Business and Economy "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Business and Economy
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) May you never leave your marriage alive. Business and Economy A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Business and Economy
Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Business and Economy "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) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Business and Economy Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Business and Economy
