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To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Business and Economy Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Business and Economy
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 First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Business and Economy
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Business and Economy Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Business and Economy
I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Business and Economy We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Business and Economy To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Business and Economy
"Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Business and Economy What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Business and Economy
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Business and Economy We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Business and Economy
Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. "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) The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Business and Economy Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Business and Economy
This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Business and Economy God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy
I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Business and Economy "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Business and Economy
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Business and Economy The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
