He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill "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 When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of
humor is just common sense, dancing.
-- Clive James Transportation Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Transportation
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Transportation "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) Transportation
The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Transportation "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 Transportation
The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transportation Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley 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
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Transportation Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Transportation
"One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Transportation There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Transportation
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. 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 Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Transportation Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine "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
"God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Transportation My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
-- Thomas Dewar Transportation
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Transportation Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Transportation
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Transportation Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle "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 Transportation
"To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Transportation The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Transportation
