"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
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-- Shane Leslie I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Business and Economy "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) "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 Everything that can be invented has been invented.
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"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Business and Economy Marriage is a rest period between romances. A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Business and Economy
"For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
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-- Elsa Schiapirelli The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Business and Economy Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Business and Economy
Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Business and Economy A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Business and Economy
It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Business and Economy Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Business and Economy
There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Business and Economy "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Business and Economy
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker 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 It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Business and Economy
People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) Business and Economy "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl 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
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Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) 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 Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Business and Economy What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Business and Economy
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Business and Economy Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Business and Economy A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Business and Economy
