"I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide 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 This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Transportation Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Transportation
This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Transportation 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 Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Transportation
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.
- James Stephens It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Transportation We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Transportation
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Transportation "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.) To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) Transportation
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane Transportation The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Transportation
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Transportation "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to
learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Transportation
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf 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, The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Transportation It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Transportation
"One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom Transportation Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Transportation
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton 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 Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Transportation Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Transportation
"It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Transportation The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Transportation
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "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" The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Transportation When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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.
-- Transportation
