The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Business and Economy Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole 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 Business and Economy
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius 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 think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Business and Economy
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Business and Economy Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Business and Economy
"The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Business and Economy "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Business and Economy
"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) 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 Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Business and Economy blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard 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 Business and Economy
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Business and Economy My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Business and Economy
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Business and Economy "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 "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Business and Economy
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt "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 "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Business and Economy "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde 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
"'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Business and Economy I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Business and Economy "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Business and Economy
"When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr Business and Economy To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Business and Economy
