"We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe 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. It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Transportation "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Transportation
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Transportation "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) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Transportation
The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Transportation Intelligence has nothing to do with politics.
-- Londo Molari Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Transportation
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Transportation "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Transportation
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Transportation Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Transportation
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
-- Edgar Watson Howe blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Transportation I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Transportation
"Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett 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 We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Transportation
It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Marriage is a rest period between romances. If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Transportation "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Transportation
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Transportation Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Transportation
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer 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 Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Transportation "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower Transportation
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Transportation When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Transportation
