The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Transportation How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder Transportation
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Transportation These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Transportation
Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Transportation A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Transportation
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Transportation Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Transportation
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Transportation They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Transportation
"Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Transportation Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Transportation
"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Transportation No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Transportation
"One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Transportation Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Transportation
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels Transportation Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. Transportation
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Transportation Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transportation
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Transportation The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Transportation
