I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Transportation "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Transportation
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Transportation "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Transportation
We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw Transportation Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Transportation
"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Transportation If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Transportation
Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. Transportation "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Transportation
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Transportation "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Transportation
A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Transportation If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is
that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one.
-- Anonymous The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Transportation
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Transportation He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Transportation
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Transportation "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Transportation
Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Transportation For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) 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 Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Transportation I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Transportation
