"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Airports A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Airports
Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Airports The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Airports
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Airports If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus My other wife is beautiful. Airports
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Airports Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Airports
A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous 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 I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Airports Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Airports
If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Airports If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Airports
"Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Airports Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Airports
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) Airports "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Airports
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Airports "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Airports
One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein 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 Airports If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Airports
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Airports "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Airports
