Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Transportation The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth Transportation
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Transportation "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Transportation
Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Transportation I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Transportation
"I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H 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 exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Transportation The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday Transportation
Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte 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 A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) Transportation A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Transportation
Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Transportation The Church is an organism that grows best in an alien society.
-- C. Stacey Woods "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Transportation
Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Transportation I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transportation
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Transportation Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Transportation
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Transportation Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team 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 Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson Transportation
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) blah "Each friend represents a world in us; a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only in meeting them that a new world is born." (Anais Nin) "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Transportation Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Transportation
I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
-- Bertrand Russell Transportation We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Transportation
