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"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Public Transport I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Public Transport
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Public Transport "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Public Transport
We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.
-- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Public Transport It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Public Transport
When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Public Transport "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) "Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human) "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Public Transport
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Public Transport I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Public Transport
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Public Transport I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage "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 Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Public Transport
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Public Transport Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Public Transport
All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Public Transport The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Public Transport
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" 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
Public Transport The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Public Transport
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy 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 One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "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 Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Public Transport "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning Public Transport
Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Public Transport Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Public Transport
