Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Transportation The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Transportation
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Transportation "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall Transportation
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Transportation "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland Transportation
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 have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Transportation Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Transportation
"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson "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) The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Transportation Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Transportation
It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Transportation "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Transportation
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Transportation We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Transportation
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Transportation I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Transportation
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Transportation There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Transportation
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain Transportation Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes Transportation
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Transportation "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Transportation
