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-- Moliere A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Business and Economy
"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche 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 Business and Economy I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Business and Economy
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman 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 "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Business and Economy Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Business and Economy
"Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Business and Economy
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Business and Economy My other wife is beautiful. "... 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) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Business and Economy
All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Business and Economy In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Business and Economy
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Business and Economy "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Business and Economy
The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Business and Economy It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Business and Economy
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Business and Economy Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Business and Economy
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "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 "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Business and Economy "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Business and Economy
The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Business and Economy There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Business and Economy
