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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Transport I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Transport
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw Youth is wasted on the young.
-- George Bernard Shaw The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Transport I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein Transport
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Transport "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Transport
Marriage still confers one very special privilege - only a married person can get divorced. Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Transport What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?
-- Gertrude Stein, dying words What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Transport
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer Transport If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) 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 Transport
What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Transport The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transport
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Transport They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Transport
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern Transport Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud Transport
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." (Edger Allen Poe) I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh Transport Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Transport
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Transport Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" Transport
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Transport There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or
theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
-- George Santayana The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of
mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.
-- Rita Mae Brown Transport
