"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Transportation No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington He who laughs last thinks slowest.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "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" Transportation
"Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Transportation "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "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) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Transportation
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) 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 When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna Transportation It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Transportation
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Transportation "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Transportation
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Transportation The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Transportation
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken "Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Transportation Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Transportation
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Transportation A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec 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 Transportation
When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Transportation 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 I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Transportation
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Transportation Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Transportation
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Transportation He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Transportation
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Transportation "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Transportation
