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Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald Transport For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Transport
In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
-- Helen Rowland What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Transport A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde 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 can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Transport
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Transport 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 Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. Transport
If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. -- Dick Martin "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Transport "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Transport
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "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) "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) Transport Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare Transport
"I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Transport The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Transport
To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in
accordance with the dictates of reason.
-- Oscar Wilde Transport ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Transport
"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Transport There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Transport
If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley 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 We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa Transport Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Transport
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed Transport "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung Transport
They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Spinster: A bachelor's wife. The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Transport Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Transport
