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Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Business and Economy "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Business and Economy
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Business and Economy In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Business and Economy
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Business and Economy Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Business and Economy
The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Business and Economy Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Business and Economy
May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Business and Economy When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Business and Economy
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 To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous 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 Business and Economy "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Business and Economy
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Business and Economy "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Business and Economy
Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Business and Economy Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy
He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln Business and Economy The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Business and Economy
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Business and Economy Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Business and Economy
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Business and Economy
