Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde Transport "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Transport
Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
- Lao-Tzu No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Transport Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Transport
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda Transport "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Transport
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Transport And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Transport
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Transport I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw Transport
"I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda What does not kill me makes me stronger.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve "Listen, or your tongue will make you deaf." (Native American Proverb) Transport Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein Transport
My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous Transport Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Transport
If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Transport "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) "The man who never made a mistake never made anything." (Derek Longdon, Tongariro Power Development, Turangi, New Zealand) Transport
"Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." 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 Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker 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 Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Transport In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Transport
"When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Transport Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky "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) "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Transport
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
-- Aldous Huxley Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words 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 Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Transport
