blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Transportation "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
-- Al Gore, U.S. Vice President We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken Transportation
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Transportation "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff Transportation
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transportation If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Transportation
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
Transportation "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Transportation
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun 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 Transportation There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo 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 Transportation
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. They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy Transportation Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Transportation
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Transportation It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Transportation
"Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Transportation If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C Transportation
Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) Transportation Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben 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 Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins Transportation
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Transportation "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Transportation
"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "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) "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Transportation "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Transportation
