Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Man and wife make one fool. I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Airports We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Airports
Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Airports Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Airports
Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "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) >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Airports Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock 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 "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Airports
They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Airports "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Airports
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Airports All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung Airports
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Airports Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive.
-- Anaïs Nin If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Airports
"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) Airports Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Airports
I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Airports "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter Airports
"Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Airports Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) Airports
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford Airports Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Airports
The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Airports Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Airports
