Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Transportation The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Transportation
I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Transportation Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 Transportation
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton When marriage is outlawed, only outlaws will have inlaws. Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Transportation "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Transportation
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac "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 Transportation "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Transportation
"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Transportation Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon 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. Transportation
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
-- George Santayana Transportation My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Transportation
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) 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 "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Transportation Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh Transportation
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason Transportation It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Transportation
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Transportation Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde Transportation
"There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Transportation A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West Transportation
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Transportation Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben "All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Transportation
