A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth .. 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 I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Transportation The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Transportation
Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Transportation There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Transportation
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Transportation The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Transportation
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Transportation A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Transportation
"Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Transportation Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Transportation
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes Transportation >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford 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
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.
-- Tony Bennett, 1995 Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Transportation "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Transportation
"... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Transportation "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Transportation
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Transportation The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde Transportation
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "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) Transportation Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Transportation
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Transportation The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Transportation
