I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison Airports All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Airports
Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
-- Alec Bourne, A Doctor's Creed If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "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) Airports "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Airports
"When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Airports My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- John-Paul Sartre Airports
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Airports "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz Airports
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Airports I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain 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 "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) Airports
Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson 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 I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Airports Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus 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 Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Airports
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Airports For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Airports
Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Airports 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 A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers Airports
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Airports "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Airports
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Airports "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Airports
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Airports You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Airports
