It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Transportation 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 Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Transportation
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Transportation An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Transportation
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Transportation Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Transportation
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Transportation A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez Transportation
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Transportation Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Transportation
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Transportation Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making Transportation
your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. 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 Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Transportation "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Transportation
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Transportation "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison Transportation
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words Transportation Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash 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 Transportation
If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Transportation "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Transportation
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Transportation It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Transportation
