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Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Transport What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Transport
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Transport "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Transport
If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis Transport Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard 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 Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Transport
"Sometimes I think it's another sign of the sad necessity of our crowded, lonely lives, an urgent hopeless reaching out to touch something real, a deep hunger for something authentic when everything s "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) 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 When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Transport "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Transport
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Transport "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) Transport
I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Transport The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
-- Fred Hoyle Transport
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
-- Semisonic, Closing Time They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Transport While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson Transport
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 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 Transport "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Transport
"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 "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "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) Transport There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Transport
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway 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 "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Transport Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton Transport
"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transport "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Transport
