"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Transportation It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Transportation
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Transportation "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Transportation
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Transportation The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Transportation
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Transportation "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Transportation
Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Transportation Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Transportation
The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 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 I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Transportation "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Transportation
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Transportation Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Transportation
There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins Transportation Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Transportation
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Transportation Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Transportation
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 Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Transportation I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh 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 People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba Transportation
Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard Transportation We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun 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 Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Transportation
