Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Motoring When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval
of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.
-- Henry Miller Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung Motoring
In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Motoring We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Motoring
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon Motoring The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Motoring
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite
without any wish to act.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Motoring If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Motoring
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the
commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete
answer. In fact, women's total ins 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 Motoring 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 "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Motoring
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Crime like death is not confined to the old and withered alone. The youngest and fairest are too often its chosen victims." (Charles Dickens, 1812-70, Oliver Twist) Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Motoring The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Motoring
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Motoring Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Motoring
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Motoring "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Motoring
"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Motoring Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) Motoring
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Motoring When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) Motoring
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld 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 Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Motoring When making public policy decisions about new technologies for the Government, I think one
should ask oneself which technologies would best strengthen the hand of a police state. Then, do
not allow "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness.
-- Madame de Rieux Motoring
