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 Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Business and Economy The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Business and Economy
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 In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Business and Economy Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Business and Economy
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) 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 "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) 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) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel 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 Business and Economy
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Business and Economy Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Business and Economy
I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Business and Economy
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Business and Economy 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 "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Business and Economy
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 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 Business and Economy History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Business and Economy
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Business and Economy The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Business and Economy
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos--especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom ... Rather than starting inside, I start ou Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Business and Economy "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g 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 "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Business and Economy
I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin 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 Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Business and Economy "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Business and Economy
"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Business and Economy Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Business and Economy
