My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Transportation "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) "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) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Transportation
Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Transportation Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
"I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Transportation
Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield 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 Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Transportation Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transportation
I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Transportation The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Transportation
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Transportation There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Transportation
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) My other wife is beautiful. "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transportation "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Transportation
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Transportation Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Transportation
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Transportation Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Transportation
The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf Transportation Thank God - every morning when you get up - that you have something to do which must be
done, whether you like it or not. Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you
a hundre "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Transportation
Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton Transportation Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Transportation
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Transportation It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Transportation
