The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Aviation Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Aviation
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
- e e cummings By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Aviation America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Aviation
I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Aviation The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) 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 Aviation
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Aviation Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Aviation
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "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) Aviation Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Aviation
The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Aviation [You reporters] should have printed what he meant, not what he said.
-- Earl Bush, press aide to Richard Daley "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) Aviation
Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Aviation "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 Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince Aviation
For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Aviation A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem Aviation
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith 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 There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Aviation blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Aviation
Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Aviation Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Aviation
"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) It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Aviation Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik "That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Aviation
