Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Transportation My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Transportation
It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Transportation blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Transportation
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the life which
one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-- Henry David Thoreau An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Transportation It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Transportation
Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Transportation Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Transportation
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Transportation Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Transportation
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf Transportation If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Transportation
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren 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 Transportation The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Transportation
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV 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 How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Transportation "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Transportation
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "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) Transportation Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Transportation
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Transportation "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Transportation
I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-- Tryon Edwards "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil
underneath.
-- Jacob Braude Transportation There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Transportation
