Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Transportation If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Transportation
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Transportation The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Transportation
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Transportation Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Transportation
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Transportation "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Transportation
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Transportation Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Transportation
"I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Transportation When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell Transportation
If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Transportation "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Transportation
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy 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 The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Transportation Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Transportation
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon My other wife is beautiful. "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transportation Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor 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 Transportation
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Transportation Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Transportation
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) 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 When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Transportation "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Transportation
