"Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Business and Economy Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Business and Economy
Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Business and Economy The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Business and Economy
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Business and Economy "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Business and Economy
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland 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 Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Business and Economy Spinster: A bachelor's wife. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Business and Economy A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Business and Economy
One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Business and Economy Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken "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'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Business and Economy
There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous What's new? Most of my wife. .. 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 Business and Economy Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Business and Economy
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Business and Economy
"Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Business and Economy You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Business and Economy
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) 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 If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Business and Economy "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Business and Economy
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) 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 Business and Economy Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Business and Economy
