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It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern 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 The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Business and Economy Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Business and Economy
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Business and Economy What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Business and Economy The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Business and Economy
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Business and Economy A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Business and Economy
More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Business and Economy Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Business and Economy
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 "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Business and Economy
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) 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 "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 "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) 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 "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Business and Economy
"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Business and Economy
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Business and Economy In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Business and Economy
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Business and Economy You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
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"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, 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 The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle Business and Economy The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
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