Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun Joint Checking Account: a handly little device which permits my wife to beat me to the draw. The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. Transportation Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Transportation
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Transportation If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Transportation
"Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Transportation "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland 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
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier Transportation "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Do or do not. There is no try.
-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back 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 Transportation
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Transportation As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries "In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Transportation
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you
together, but do so with all your heart.
-- Marcus Aurelius "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Transportation America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole.
-- Bobcat Goldthwait Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford Transportation
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." (Henry Louis Mencken) A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Transportation That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) Transportation
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson If you want a place in the sun, you've got to put up with a few blisters.
-- Abigail Van Buren "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Transportation Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Transportation
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Transportation If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Transportation
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley "In every gathering of thirteen, expect one guest will turn out to be a Judas." (Aleister Crowley) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Transportation The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Transportation
I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.
-- Jonson, Ben I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Transportation "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Transportation
