Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward Trucking "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) Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Trucking
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Trucking Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Trucking
Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims
of intact ones.
-- Peter DeVries I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Trucking Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Trucking
Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane 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 Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) Trucking Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Trucking
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, "Even a blind chicken finds a
few grains of corn now and then."
-- Lyle Lovett, musician, upon marying actress Julia Roberts, Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Trucking "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Trucking
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
-- Paul Valery "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Trucking Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Trucking
"No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't
natural.
-- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Trucking Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Trucking
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Trucking The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Trucking
There are three types of people in this world: Those who can count, and those who can't.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous 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 "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 Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Trucking Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Trucking
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Trucking Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-- George Bernard Shaw Trucking
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen 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 Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Trucking "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o 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 There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Trucking
