Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov 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 "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Airports I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Airports
"Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe Airports Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The
rest is trust.
-- Nanette Newman, British actress "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Airports
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Airports Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Airports
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Airports The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Airports
"There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Airports And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Airports
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Airports For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Airports
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Airports The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Airports
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Airports Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Airports
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove Airports Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Airports
Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Airports Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Airports
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Airports A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Airports
