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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 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 "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Business and Economy "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Business and Economy
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Business and Economy Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Business and Economy
We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Business and Economy There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins 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
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Business and Economy
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin 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 "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Business and Economy the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter 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 MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Business and Economy
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Business and Economy I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Business and Economy
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) 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 You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Business and Economy Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Business and Economy
Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Business and Economy People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Business and Economy
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Business and Economy 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 It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Business and Economy
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Business and Economy No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Business and Economy
"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
"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) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Business and Economy At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Business and Economy
