I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous 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 By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Transportation Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Transportation
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Transportation Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Transportation
It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Transportation Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry Transportation
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) 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 Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Transportation Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door
and just visit now and then.
-- Katharine Hepburn 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 I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Transportation
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Transportation Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Transportation
"The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Transportation The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon Transportation
"The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "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) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Transportation "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Transportation
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Transportation If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Transportation
If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen Transportation Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous Transportation
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Transportation Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Transportation
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Transportation "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Transportation
