"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Transport Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Transport
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Transport I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
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"It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh 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 Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-
inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least
expect i Transport "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Transport
"We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Transport Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke 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 Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Transport
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake Transport Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Transport
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Transport When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Transport
"Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Transport Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus 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 The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Transport
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Transport The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver Transport
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Transport Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
-- David Chambless The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Transport
"People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Transport When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Transport
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer 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 Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Transport If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Transport
