"Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Transportation We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) Transportation
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Transportation He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Transportation
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Transportation I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Transportation
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "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 Transportation Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot Transportation
Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Transportation Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take
what I have to give.
-- Cass Daley The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Transportation
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Transportation blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Transportation
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Transportation Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
-- Don Stanford Transportation
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Transportation To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Transportation
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 Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Transportation "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Transportation
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais 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 Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Transportation There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy 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 Transportation
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Transportation Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Transportation
