The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Transportation "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) Transportation
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Transportation "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Why doesn't she like me? Is it my hair, my overbite, the fact that I've worn the same shirt and
shorts for the last four years?
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated tele Transportation
He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Transportation Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Transportation
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Transportation There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner Transportation
The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz Transportation "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Transportation
No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. 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 We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Transportation "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Transportation
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Transportation Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Transportation
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Transportation "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Transportation
I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Transportation "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Transportation
"He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) 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 "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) "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 I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Transportation Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Transportation
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Transportation Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence Transportation
