Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Transportation In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Transportation
Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Transportation "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Transportation
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers 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 All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Transportation Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Transportation
"Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration.
-- Thomas Edison When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and Transportation Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Transportation
Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Transportation "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Transportation
What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) 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" The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Transportation Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Transportation
That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Transportation Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Transportation
For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Transportation Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Transportation
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Transportation Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford Transportation
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Transportation I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Transportation
Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Transportation "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) "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 I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Transportation
