88 Quotes

“For some years he had felt weighing on him the burden of loneliness which sometimes overwhelms old bachelors. He had been strong, active and cheerful, spending his days in sport, and his evenings in amusement. Now he was growing dull, and no longer took interest in anything. Exercise tired him, suppers and even dinners made him ill, while women bored him as much as they had once amused him.”

“O sleep! ridiculous mystery which makes faces appear so grotesque, you are the revealer of human ugliness. You uncover all shortcomings, all deformities and all defects. You turn every face touched by you into a caricature.”

“He himself was one of your noisy roisterers, for whom life holds no greater pleasures than wine and bought women. Outside these two poles of existence, he understood nothing. Braggart, brawler, contemptuous of every living person, he despised the whole world from the heights of his ignorance.”

“12% of employees study further to learn more. 88% of employees study further to earn more.”

“12% of dreams create jobs. 88% of jobs destroy dreams.”

“How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)”

“12% of employees eat because they are hungry. 88% of employees eat because it is 1 o’clock.”

“12% of people marry because they are completely in love. 88% of people marry just so they are then liable for only half of their rent.”

“The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.”

“I love the idea that if you're going to travel through time, you do it in this insanely dangerous car travelling at 88 miles per hour.”