People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Transportation Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Transportation
By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune 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 Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Transportation Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Transportation
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Transportation The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Transportation
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transportation 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 "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Transportation
Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Transportation "My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." (Oscar Wilde, his last recorded words) Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy 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 Transportation
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Transportation The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Transportation
"Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Transportation You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr Transportation
When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Transportation It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre Transportation
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty 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 If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Transportation "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Transportation
Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Transportation "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Transportation
"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard 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 There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Transportation But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Transportation
