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Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Transportation If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton My other wife is beautiful. Transportation
You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be
sacrificed to expediency.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "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) "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 The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Transportation "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating
influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the
commun It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Transportation
Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Transportation Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Transportation
A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Transportation The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Transportation
When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Transportation Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
chara "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) Transportation
"People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin 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 Transportation People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Transportation
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Transportation "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Transportation
I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Transportation A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland 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
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Transportation "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Transportation
"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
-- Robert Frost Transportation A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Transportation
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Transportation Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Transportation
