The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Transportation "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Transportation
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Transportation The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Transportation
I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson 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 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 Transportation Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Transportation
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Transportation "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Transportation
"The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries "The last Christian died on the cross." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transportation Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama Transportation
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Transportation The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Transportation
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Transportation Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) 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 Transportation
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Transportation Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken Transportation
There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Transportation My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really Transportation
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Transportation "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Transportation
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey 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 "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Transportation To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Transportation
