Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str Business and Economy "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Business and Economy
My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Business and Economy There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Business and Economy
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Business and Economy God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Business and Economy
ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) Business and Economy It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Business and Economy
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Business and Economy
Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Business and Economy If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Business and Economy
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Business and Economy
Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "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) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Business and Economy If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon 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
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Business and Economy "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Business and Economy
Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Business and Economy A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Business and Economy
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana Business and Economy "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-) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Business and Economy
