Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Transportation I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Transportation
Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason Transportation Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Transportation
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous Transportation He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams 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
Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Transportation If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw If God had meant us to vote, He would have given us candidates.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Transportation
Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Transportation At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Transportation
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Transportation Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Transportation
Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Transportation Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Transportation
The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Transportation I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Transportation
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Transportation Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller Transportation
"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Transportation Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
-- Samuel Johnson Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Transportation
I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) 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 "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Transportation Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Transportation
