Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Business to Business I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Business to Business
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Business to Business I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Business to Business
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 It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Business to Business Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Business to Business
Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Business to Business If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins Business to Business
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Business to Business A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Business to Business
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Business to Business "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Business to Business
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Business to Business The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Business to Business
People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Business to Business You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Business to Business
I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Business to Business Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Business to Business
Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Business to Business You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Business to Business
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Business to Business "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Business to Business
