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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Business and Economy I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) Business and Economy
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Business and Economy "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Business and Economy
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Business and Economy Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Business and Economy
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Business and Economy Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius 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 husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Business and Economy Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Business and Economy
"As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Business and Economy Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.
-- Woody Allen I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Business and Economy
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Business and Economy "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Business and Economy
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Business and Economy "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Business and Economy
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Business and Economy Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Business and Economy
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Business and Economy 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 The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Business and Economy
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Business and Economy I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Business and Economy
