All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Business and Economy 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 Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Business and Economy
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Business and Economy Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Business and Economy
If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb "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) Business and Economy Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll Business and Economy
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) 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 blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Business and Economy "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Business and Economy
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Business and Economy The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Business and Economy
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Business and Economy The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Business and Economy
Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons Business and Economy Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Business and Economy Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran Business and Economy
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Business and Economy 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Business and Economy
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Business and Economy Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last "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, "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Business and Economy
blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper "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 "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Business and Economy The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Business and Economy
