Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Business and Economy It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Business and Economy
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Business and Economy Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Business and Economy
You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Business and Economy I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Business and Economy
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Business and Economy Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra 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
"Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Business and Economy A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye 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
Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Business and Economy
"Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Business and Economy The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Business and Economy
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "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) You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec 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. Business and Economy See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Business and Economy
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Business and Economy "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Business and Economy
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Business and Economy An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Business and Economy
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Business and Economy >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Business and Economy
