I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Business and Economy
If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Business and Economy If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Business and Economy
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Business and Economy
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Business and Economy Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Business and Economy
An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "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 "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Business and Economy There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Business and Economy
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx "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-) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Business and Economy "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) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Business and Economy
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Business and Economy Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
"Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Business and Economy If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Business and Economy
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Business and Economy "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Business and Economy
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 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 Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Business and Economy If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Business and Economy
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Business and Economy "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Business and Economy
