"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Transport "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department
store and he asked for my autograph.
-- Shirley Temple Black "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) Transport
"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 "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
? Work To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother--I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. Transport When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Transport
"Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Transport Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud Transport
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Transport Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte 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 "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) Transport
If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke
or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Transport Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "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 Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Transport
"Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller Transport There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Transport
"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Transport He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop 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 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
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
-- Benjamin Franklin "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Transport If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton Transport
Men. You can't live with them. You don't have to.
-- Seen on a t-shirt "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Transport "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) 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 The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Transport
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Transport No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Transport
"A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Transport Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 In the end, everything is a gag.
- Charlie Chaplin Transport
