Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "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) When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Transport Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Transport
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Trust, but verify.
-- Ronald Reagan Transport "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transport
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
-- Confucius "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Transport Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Transport
Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz Transport We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Transport
"The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Transport A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves Transport
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other
friendships of the same intimacy. On the contrary, in friendship union is more about ideal things:
and in that "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman 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 Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Transport
"Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) 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) Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Transport
"Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Transport The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Transport
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Transport Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol) Transport
Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Transport "Goodwill is the only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy." (Mrshall Field, businessman and philanthropist) Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec What's new? Most of my wife. Transport
"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Transport A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Transport
