The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) 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 "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Railroad "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Railroad
The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Railroad "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "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) "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) Railroad
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West Railroad Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Railroad
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Railroad "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell 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 Railroad
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Railroad "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Railroad
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous 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 The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Railroad "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Railroad
Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers Railroad The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Railroad
He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Railroad Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal Railroad
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Railroad Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Railroad
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers Railroad "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Railroad
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein Railroad I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they
study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.
-- Gerald Early, writer, baseball do "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein Railroad
