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 The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di 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 Transport "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Transport
"Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Transport Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Transport
blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Transport One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Transport
"Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous 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 There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Transport It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Transport
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. blah "A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The
gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
-- Thomas Arnold Bennet Transport Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Transport
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "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) Transport Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx 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 If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Transport
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Transport "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Transport
Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) 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 Transport "I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself." (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Transport
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Transport That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld 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 Transport
"A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Transport A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Transport
"Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. 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 Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Transport Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Transport
