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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Business and Economy Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Business and Economy
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-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Business and Economy An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) 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 Business and Economy
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Business and Economy Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Business and Economy
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
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-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
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blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. My wife doesn't care what I do away from home, as long as I don't enjoy it. Business and Economy Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Business and Economy
If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde 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 My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Business and Economy To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume 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 All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Business and Economy
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
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-- Victor Hugo Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your Business and Economy An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Business and Economy
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Business and Economy The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Business and Economy
"One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Business and Economy The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Business and Economy
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 A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
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-- Phyllis Diller His ignorance is encyclopedic
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bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
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-- Molly Ivins Business and Economy
"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Business and Economy "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Business and Economy
