I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 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 The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Automotive I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again.
-- Noel Coward If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Automotive
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way
of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Automotive 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 "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Automotive
The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.
-- Maya Angelou Automotive Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Automotive
"Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Automotive "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming Automotive
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) 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 Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Automotive "No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Automotive
"It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) 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 Automotive "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
-- Tom Robbins The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Automotive
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if
he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Automotive 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 "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Automotive
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher Automotive If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Automotive
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Automotive Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Automotive
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Automotive "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Automotive
We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain "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) Automotive "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Automotive
