When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
- Rudyard Kipling 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 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 Transport If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings 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 Transport
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
unnatural condition.
-- Robert Briffault Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha Transport Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying Transport
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "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) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 Transport And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness
are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser
tha The greatest homage to truth is to use it.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Transport
"Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Transport Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Transport
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 I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Transport Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Transport
"The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones." (William Shakespeare, Julius Cĉsar. Act iii. Sc. 2.) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "Of all mankind the great poet is the equable man." (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1855) Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Transport He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown "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) 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 Transport
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 trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry Transport If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Transport
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) blah "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Transport Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) Transport
We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Transport "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Transport
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House 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 There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Transport "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times.
-- Anon. Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Transport
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Transport Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Transport
