"The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Business and Economy "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Business and Economy
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Business and Economy Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Business and Economy
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin Business and Economy Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Business and Economy
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) 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 If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Business and Economy "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 Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Business and Economy
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Business and Economy
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Business and Economy An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Business and Economy
The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg Business and Economy The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Business and Economy
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Business and Economy Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Business and Economy 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 "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Business and Economy
"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Business and Economy What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Business and Economy
The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Business and Economy 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 Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
