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The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Business and Economy A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "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) Business and Economy
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Business and Economy Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Business and Economy
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Business and Economy
If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Business and Economy Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn 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 "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Business and Economy Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Business and Economy
If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Business and Economy Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy
Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Business and Economy "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Business and Economy
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Business and Economy blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Business and Economy
Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Business and Economy The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Business and Economy
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Business and Economy "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Business and Economy
Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Business and Economy Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Business and Economy
