Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Business and Economy In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Business and Economy
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Business and Economy The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Business and Economy
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Business and Economy "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Business and Economy
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) 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 If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Business and Economy
Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Business and Economy It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Business and Economy
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de 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 "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) 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 The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Business and Economy The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Business and Economy
You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Business and Economy What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Business and Economy
English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Business and Economy
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Business and Economy Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Business and Economy
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Business and Economy The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Business and Economy
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Business and Economy Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy
