If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Automotive It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Automotive
"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Automotive Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Automotive
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Automotive 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 Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Automotive
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Automotive "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Automotive
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Automotive I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Automotive
My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Automotive It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Automotive
He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Automotive We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Automotive
Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Automotive My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Automotive
"No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Automotive One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Automotive
Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Automotive Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Automotive
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Automotive If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Automotive
