Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Transportation In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
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"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) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i 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 He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Transportation Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
-- Robert Browning I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transportation
When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Transportation I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Use your own best judgment at all times.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
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-- Dawn French "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Transportation Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Transportation
"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 "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Transportation When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Transportation
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) 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 For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Transportation "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Transportation
"Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Transportation "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Transportation
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Transportation "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Transportation
A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Transportation It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Transportation
"No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Man and wife make one fool. Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Transportation He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transportation
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Transportation "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
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