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Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Finance A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Finance
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley Finance The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Finance
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Finance Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Finance
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Finance "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) I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Finance
I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Finance I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Finance
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers 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 Finance But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "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, Finance
One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Finance Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Finance
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Finance I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Finance
"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Finance Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Finance
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Finance If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Finance
"These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Finance All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Finance
