I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Transportation Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Transportation
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Transportation The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Transportation
"Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to
finish without knowing what you have written.
-- Jean Jacques Rousseau Transportation Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Transportation
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Transportation It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein Transportation
"If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) 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 Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Transportation The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Transportation
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Transportation Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Transportation
"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Transportation Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Transportation
The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Transportation "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill Transportation
"Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it." (Colin Powell) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Transportation Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Transportation
Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Transportation Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transportation
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Transportation Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Transportation
