Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Business and Economy "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Business and Economy
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Business and Economy A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Business and Economy
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom Business and Economy I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Business and Economy
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Business and Economy There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Business and Economy
The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Business and Economy "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Business and Economy
"God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Business and Economy "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 If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Business and Economy
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Business and Economy
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Business and Economy "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Business and Economy
Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Business and Economy Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Business and Economy
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. The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Business and Economy "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Business and Economy
My other wife is beautiful. "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Business and Economy A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Business and Economy
