The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Transportation Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Transportation
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk Transportation What's new? Most of my wife. 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 blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Transportation
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown 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 Transportation 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 am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Transportation
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Transportation The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Transportation
"In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Transportation Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Transportation
Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Transportation "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer Transportation
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Transportation "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Transportation
...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Transportation The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Transportation
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Transportation The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard 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 The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Transportation
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Transportation "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Transportation
"I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Transportation When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Transportation
