There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Business and Economy Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
"From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Business and Economy Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Business and Economy
The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Business and Economy Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "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 and Economy
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Business and Economy Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "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) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Business and Economy These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Business and Economy
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) 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 Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Business and Economy 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 Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Business and Economy
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Business and Economy Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Business and Economy
"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine Business and Economy A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Business and Economy
The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Business and Economy "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Business and Economy
The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen Business and Economy When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Business and Economy
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Business and Economy Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Business and Economy
