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Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature
intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times
worse tha I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Business and Economy Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Business and Economy
"We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford 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 "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Business and Economy Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Business and Economy
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Business and Economy In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch Business and Economy
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Business and Economy "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Business and Economy
A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve Business and Economy Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Business and Economy Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Business and Economy
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) 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 Business and Economy "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Business and Economy
If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Business and Economy Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Business and Economy
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. Business and Economy It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Business and Economy
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus 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 A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Business and Economy "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Business and Economy
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song Business and Economy "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. "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) Business and Economy
