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Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Transportation Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
-- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act i. Sc. 1. "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Transportation
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words Transportation "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Transportation
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Transportation "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Transportation
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Transportation "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 Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley Transportation
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Transportation Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Transportation
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Transportation Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Transportation
"Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Transportation I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transportation
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken 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 "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde Transportation Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington 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 Transportation
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Transportation Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Transportation
Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 Transportation "Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Transportation
For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith Transportation "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Transportation
