To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics a "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Financial Services Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Financial Services
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Financial Services Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Financial Services
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Financial Services Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Financial Services
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Financial Services Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
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-- Ovid Financial Services
"In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Financial Services The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Financial Services
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Financial Services Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Financial Services
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, Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Financial Services "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Financial Services
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Financial Services He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Financial Services
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Financial Services Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Financial Services
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "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) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Financial Services History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Financial Services
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry My other wife is beautiful. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Financial Services May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
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