It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Transport I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous 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 Transport
"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Transport He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda Transport
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Transport There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Transport
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in
opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
-- Sydney Smith Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Transport "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) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens Transport
I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world." (John Steinbeck Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Transport Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson 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 Transport
"Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher Transport Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. Transport
Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous Transport Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "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 love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau Transport
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.
-- Gandhi The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed Transport Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken 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 My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Transport
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Transport "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Transport
"All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness." (Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais) Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Transport There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Transport
"The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." (Abbie Hoffman) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "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) We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Transport 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 As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Transport
