"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan Taxis Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Taxis
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Taxis If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Taxis
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi Taxis "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Taxis
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Taxis "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Taxis
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Taxis Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje 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 Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Taxis
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Taxis Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi Taxis
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little What's new? Most of my wife. "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) We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Taxis Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Taxis
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
-- Allen Ginsberg Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Taxis The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Taxis
There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Taxis Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Taxis
Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Taxis 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 If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Taxis
"You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) 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 Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Taxis The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde Taxis
