"Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Transportation Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Transportation
"I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm 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) Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Transportation
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney "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) Transportation To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Transportation
"The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) 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 A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Transportation I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Transportation
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell "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) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau "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) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Transportation "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Transportation
Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Transportation I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Transportation
blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer 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 Transportation The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death Transportation
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Transportation blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Transportation
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Transportation You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Transportation
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Transportation The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Transportation
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Of the seven dwarves, only Dopey had a shaven face. This should tell us something about the
custom of shaving.
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Transportation In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Transportation
