Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J "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) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Transportation In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) 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 Transportation
Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Transportation You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken Transportation
I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Transportation I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Transportation
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Transportation "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Transportation
People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.
-- Satya Sai Baba 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 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.
-- Anonymous In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Transportation Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Transportation
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Transportation "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Transportation
"The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Transportation "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Transportation
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure 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 People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Transportation 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 Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Transportation
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 Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Transportation "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Transportation
"Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Transportation There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Transportation
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Transportation My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France Transportation
