If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Transport "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) I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Transport
Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Transport The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Transport
This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Transport The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Transport
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Transport Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Transport
Guys are lucky because they get to grow mustaches. I wish I could. It's like having a little pet for
your face.
-- Anita Wise "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What's new? Most of my wife. In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Transport "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Transport
That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Transport Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost 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 Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns Transport
People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West 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 Transport Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh "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) I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Transport
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Sometimes you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
-- Jerry Garcia Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Transport "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Transport
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 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 Marry not a tennis player. For love means nothing to them. Transport "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transport
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 Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
unpalatable.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Transport I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Transport
To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Transport "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Transport
