"Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) 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 I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Transportation
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Transportation I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi Transportation
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "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) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Transportation Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Transportation
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transportation Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Transportation
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Transportation I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Transportation
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer Transportation Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Transportation
A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Transportation We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Transportation
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Transportation Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Transportation
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Transportation Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Transportation
Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci 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 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 It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Transportation The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Transportation
For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "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) 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Transportation "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Transportation
