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Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Business and Economy Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Business and Economy
Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "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 Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Business and Economy The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Business and Economy
"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 To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Business and Economy "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Business and Economy For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Business and Economy
This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Business and Economy The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Business and Economy 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 There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Business and Economy
Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt Business and Economy I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) Business and Economy
Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Business and Economy A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Business and Economy
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story 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 In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Business and Economy Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Business and Economy
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Business and Economy Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Business and Economy
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Business and Economy We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Business and Economy
