Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Transportation "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed "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 Transportation
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French 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 Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost Transportation "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Transportation
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Transportation I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Transportation
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers Transportation Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan Transportation
"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo "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 Transportation Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Transportation
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Transportation It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Transportation
All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Transportation Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transportation
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Transportation I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Transportation
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Transportation We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Transportation
"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Transportation Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Transportation
In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Transportation Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Transportation
