The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Transportation If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Transportation
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Transportation "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Transportation
Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Transportation Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-- Oscar Wilde Transportation
If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Transportation A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "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 Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Transportation
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Transportation 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 Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Transportation
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Transportation Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Transportation
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Transportation We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in
bed with her.
-- Lenny Bruce "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Transportation
The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Transportation Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Transportation
It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Transportation Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Transportation
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Transportation To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Transportation
Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Transportation You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Transportation
