"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 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 Business and Economy Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Business and Economy
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Business and Economy
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Business and Economy A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back Business and Economy
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Business and Economy In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Business and Economy
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Business and Economy Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Business and Economy
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Business and Economy "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Business and Economy
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "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) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Business and Economy Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Business and Economy
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle 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 Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Business and Economy
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Business and Economy
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Business and Economy Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper Business and Economy
"The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Business and Economy
