Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. "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 you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Transportation Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Transportation
"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) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Transportation blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Transportation
"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Transportation Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Transportation
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Transportation In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Transportation
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transportation If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Transportation
I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Transportation Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Transportation
"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Transportation Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Transportation
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Transportation Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Transportation
Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh 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 He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Transportation Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Transportation
Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) 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 Transportation Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Transportation
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "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) "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Transportation blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Transportation
