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 Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin Transport The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Transport
He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
-- John Harrigan "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is Transport Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel Transport
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Transport I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Transport
May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. 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 The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Transport The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Transport
When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Transport A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Transport
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Transport Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Transport
Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro 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 Transport "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Transport
I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones
you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in
your "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Transport Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley Transport
"Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire 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. Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.
-- Norman Douglas Transport "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Transport
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Transport Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu "Conscience and cowardice are really the same things. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all." (Oscar Wilde) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill Transport
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 I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Transport Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Transport
