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The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Transportation Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein Transportation
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Transportation The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Transportation
Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Transportation In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Transportation
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Transportation Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac 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 Transportation
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos 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 If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Transportation "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) Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Transportation
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Transportation It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Transportation
Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Transportation Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Transportation
In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Transportation The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Transportation
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Transportation "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Transportation
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Transportation Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Transportation
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine 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 The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Transportation He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Transportation
