When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Transport Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Transport
We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa 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 Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle Transport Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Transport
The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Transport The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Transport
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost 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 Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) Transport "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago Transport
"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Transport "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) 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 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
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton 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 Transport The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
terrible.
-- Jean Kerr The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills Transport
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Transport It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Transport
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Transport Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Transport
"One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get.
-- John Watson, University of Canterbury Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Transport What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Transport
Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Transport All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Transport
God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries 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 The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead Transport The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Transport
