Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Transportation A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Transportation
That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Transportation I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Transportation
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Transportation It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger 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
We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Transportation And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Transportation
"To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Transportation When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Transportation
"Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Transportation "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) The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's Transportation
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Transportation "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Transportation
"And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to 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 Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Transportation When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Transportation
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Transportation Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Transportation
"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Transportation Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Transportation
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Transportation One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher To teach is to learn twice.
-- Joseph Joubert Transportation
