The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Trucking The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Trucking
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Trucking "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Trucking
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Trucking What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Trucking
"We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "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) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Trucking If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Trucking
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Trucking Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Trucking
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 hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Trucking I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Trucking
blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Trucking When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Trucking
"A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. Trucking Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Trucking
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "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) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Trucking After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "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 you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Trucking
A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Trucking Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Trucking
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) When one find's oneself in a hole of one's own making, it is a good time to examine the quality of
the workmanship.
-- John Renmerde Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Trucking The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Trucking
