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It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Railroads Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Railroads
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. Railroads "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Railroads
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr Railroads Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board Railroads
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Railroads Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Railroads
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "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 "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Railroads I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Railroads
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 Railroads "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) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain "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) Railroads
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Railroads Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Railroads
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Railroads Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill Railroads
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at
the same time.
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Railroads "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Railroads
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Railroads Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant
day into your answers.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Railroads
He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Railroads Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous Railroads
