A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Business and Economy No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Business and Economy
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Business and Economy It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Business and Economy
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Business and Economy "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Business and Economy
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf Business and Economy He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Business and Economy
Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Business and Economy Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Business and Economy
May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Business and Economy "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott Business and Economy
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Business and Economy Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Business and Economy
"Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Business and Economy 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 Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Business and Economy
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Business and Economy Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Business and Economy
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Business and Economy Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Business and Economy
