"Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Transportation Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Transportation
Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr 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 Transportation They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Transportation
Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Transportation "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Transportation
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Transportation If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) 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 Transportation
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Transportation To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Transportation
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Transportation Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Transportation
Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. 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 Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Transportation "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Transportation
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Transportation Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Transportation
A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Transportation "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Transportation
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Transportation The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Transportation
"Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) 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.
-- Crowf "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Transportation "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Transportation
