We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Transportation "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Transportation
I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Transportation ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Transportation
Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Transportation With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Transportation
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Transportation NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Transportation
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore." (Samuel Butler) Transportation "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne Transportation
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Transportation "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no
religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear
of Transportation
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 The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Transportation This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Transportation
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Transportation There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Transportation
Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Transportation Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived 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.
- Sir Winston Churchill Transportation
Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Transportation The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) 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 Transportation
The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,
the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms
with Transportation Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Transportation
