If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Motoring Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Motoring
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) Motoring My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Motoring
Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Motoring "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Motoring
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho Motoring Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Motoring
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Motoring Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Motoring
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "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) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Motoring Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Motoring
All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Motoring "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Motoring
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "Vegiburgers are wrong." (Mike Kaup) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Motoring The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender Motoring
There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence Motoring If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau Motoring
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Motoring Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Motoring
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli 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, Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry Motoring There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Motoring
