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As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Transport He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Transport
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transport Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 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
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Transport Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transport
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
-- Ernest Hemingway Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Transport Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates Transport
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Transport "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright The man with the best job in the country is the Vice President. All he has to do is get up every
morning and say, "How's the President?"
-- Will Rogers Transport
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Everything that can be invented has been invented.
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones Transport A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Transport
It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow Transport "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Transport
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 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 Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Transport Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas 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 Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost Transport
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi Transport Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transport
Marriage is a rest period between romances. My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Transport You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Transport
"Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Transport Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Transport
