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A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Business and Economy An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Business and Economy
"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do Business and Economy
Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove 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 A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Business and Economy It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars Business and Economy
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Business and Economy Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Business and Economy
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein "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) If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Business and Economy English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. 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.
- Sir Winston Churchill A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Business and Economy
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Business and Economy There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Business and Economy
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Business and Economy He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Business and Economy
Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
Business and Economy That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Business and Economy Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Business and Economy
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Business and Economy Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Business and Economy
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Business and Economy Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 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 The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy
