Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Transportation Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni Transportation
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Transportation "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Transportation
I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Transportation Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Transportation
"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) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Transportation "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Transportation
Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Transportation "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Transportation
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "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) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Transportation Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Transportation
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 Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Transportation To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Transportation
I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Transportation Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Transportation
"Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Transportation Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Transportation
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Transportation Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Transportation
To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Transportation Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Transportation
