My other wife is beautiful. "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Transportation "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) 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 Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Transportation
Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Transportation "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer Transportation
"I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Transportation Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
-- Francis Crawford If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Transportation
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Transportation Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise
-- William Blake The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero Transportation
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason "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) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the
bureaucracy won't.
-- Hyman Rickover Transportation We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transportation
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Transportation To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Transportation
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, "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Transportation He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Transportation
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran Transportation 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 second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Transportation
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Transportation I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Transportation
You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Transportation "Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Transportation
It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Transportation "The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Transportation
