English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Transportation Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Transportation
The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "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 Transportation "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Transportation
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Transportation Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Transportation
All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Transportation Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
-- Tom Robbins I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford Transportation
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 exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Transportation It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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) I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Transportation Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. Transportation
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Transportation Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Transportation
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
-- Oscar Wilde "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Transportation It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way
to bet.
-- Damon Runyan 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 Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Transportation
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. 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) Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Transportation
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Transportation You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) "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) Transportation
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) 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. The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Transportation Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Transportation
