"The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it.
-- Woodrow Wyatt Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Transport You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Transport
I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transport My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light." (Anonymous) There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Transport
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Transport The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "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) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Transport
Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker Transport "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Transport
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Transport "You make 'em, I amuse 'em." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, on children) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Transport
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Transport Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Transport
I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Transport A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to
criticize others.
-- H. Jackson Brown Transport
The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Transport Whoever called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
-- Groucho Marx My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Transport
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Transport "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Transport
Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are
great riches.
-- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Transport What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Transport
You cannot think about thinking, without thinking about thinking about something.
-- Seymour Papert Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Transport "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) "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) What's new? Most of my wife. Transport
