"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN 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 Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Transportation I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Transportation
I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Transportation It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
-- Yogi Berra Transportation
I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson Transportation "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Transportation
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Transportation A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Transportation
I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations Transportation I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Transportation
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Transportation An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Transportation
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student 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 When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Transportation Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Transportation
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Better watch out that you won't become a television set in your next life.
--Loesje 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 Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Transportation
"Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Transportation All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne Transportation
"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) 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 "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Transportation Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
-- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Transportation
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton The democratic theory is that if you accumulate enough ignorance at the polls, you produce
intelligence.
-- Philo Vance Transportation Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Transportation
