For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer Transport We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Transport
Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Transport You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Transport
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman Transport "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) A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Transport
If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Transport Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Transport
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley Transport It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transport
"Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
-- Groucho Marx "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Transport Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Transport
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare.
-- Joan Collins 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 We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Transport Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn 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 The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Transport
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Transport Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers Transport
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 Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Transport Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Transport
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Transport Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
-- Irwin Corey Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick "Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Transport
"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Transport We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.
- W.B. Prescott "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Transport
