With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale 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 Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Business and Economy Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Business and Economy
We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Business and Economy We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Business and Economy
"I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Business and Economy Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
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-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Business and Economy
"Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Business and Economy And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Business and Economy
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-- John Adams, dying words One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Business and Economy Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
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to Business and Economy
"Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson 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 Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Business and Economy But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Business and Economy
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Business and Economy Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Business and Economy "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Business and Economy
"I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Business and Economy
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Business and Economy Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
"I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Business and Economy I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "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 Business and Economy
