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The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Business and Economy
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) 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 Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Business and Economy
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "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 In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Business and Economy One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
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When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Business and Economy The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Business and Economy
"Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "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 Business and Economy Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Business and Economy
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Business and Economy Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Business and Economy
Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Business and Economy "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Business and Economy
Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Business and Economy "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country
could do under first-class management.
-- Senator Soaper "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Business and Economy
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Business and Economy Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Business and Economy
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Business and Economy We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Business and Economy
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau 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 Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Business and Economy And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Business and Economy
