"Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Transportation "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. Transportation
"I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Transportation Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Transportation
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Transportation It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician Transportation
Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Transportation One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Transportation
Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Transportation Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Transportation
"Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison "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) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Transportation "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Transportation
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S 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 I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco Transportation The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken Transportation
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Transportation The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Transportation
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Transportation It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Transportation
May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire Transportation No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Transportation
"I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers 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 I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Transportation All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Transportation
