Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Business and Economy "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
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You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Business and Economy "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Business and Economy
Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Business and Economy "Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. 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 Business and Economy
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe "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) Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland 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 empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. 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 I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Business and Economy
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Business and Economy While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Business and Economy
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Business and Economy We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Business and Economy
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Business and Economy "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Business and Economy
"If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady
in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.
-- Dick Martin Business and Economy I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Business and Economy
"I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward 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 Business and Economy When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Business and Economy "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Business and Economy
