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"No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Business and Economy All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Business and Economy "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Business and Economy
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Business and Economy "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) Business and Economy
Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Business and Economy "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Business and Economy
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous 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 Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Business and Economy Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Business and Economy
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa 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 The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Business and Economy Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Business and Economy
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Business and Economy Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken I take my wife everywhere I go. She always finds her way back.
-- Henny Youngman "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Business and Economy
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Business and Economy "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Business and Economy
Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Business and Economy Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Business and Economy
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 If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Business and Economy The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Business and Economy
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 To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Business and Economy It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Business and Economy
