Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Transportation The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Transportation
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Transportation "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Transportation
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov 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 You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Transportation It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Transportation
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Transportation "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Transportation
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Transportation Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transportation
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "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 "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Transportation "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Transportation
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Transportation Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Transportation
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman 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 Transportation What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Transportation
No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Transportation People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Transportation
Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Transportation "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai Transportation
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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-- Bobcat Goldthwait "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
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