The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Transportation Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Transportation
"The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? 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 She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Transportation If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long Transportation
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Transportation Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Transportation
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "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) Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Transportation After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Transportation
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton 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 most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Transportation No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Transportation
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Transportation We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Transportation
May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Transportation It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Transportation
When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Transportation Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a
holding pattern over Philadelphia.
-- Judith Viorst 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 Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Transportation
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous Transportation The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx 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 Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Transportation "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton Transportation
But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Transportation Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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