Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Airports "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Airports
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Airports "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Airports
Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Airports I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Airports
Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Airports "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Airports
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u Airports The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words 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 Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Airports
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Airports The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Airports
Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Airports Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Airports
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly Airports The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Airports
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Airports If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Airports
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "... 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) Airports A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Airports
An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human What's new? Most of my wife. "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Airports "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) The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Airports
