Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Transportation Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Transportation
"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Transportation Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Transportation
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Transportation Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Transportation
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Transportation The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Transportation
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Transportation For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Transportation
To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume 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 Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea Transportation Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? 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. Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Transportation
"There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "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 Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Transportation The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Transportation
Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Transportation Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Transportation
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Transportation "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Transportation
"Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Transportation Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Transportation
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician Transportation "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Transportation
