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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage 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 As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Business and Economy The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Business and Economy
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard 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 Business and Economy A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Business and Economy
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein 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 He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Business and Economy Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Business and Economy
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Business and Economy "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Business and Economy
I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Business and Economy Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
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Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Business and Economy I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Business and Economy
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Business and Economy It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau Business and Economy
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Business and Economy "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare Business and Economy
"Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Business and Economy "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Business and Economy
Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Business and Economy "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Business and Economy
I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Business and Economy A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Business and Economy
