If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transport If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
-- Groucho Marx Transport
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Transport Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld "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) Transport
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t Transport I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Transport
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Goethe Transport "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) 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 cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic Transport
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) 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 certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Transport "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Transport
"Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Transport "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary Transport
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.
-- Bill Stern "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland 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 He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Transport
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Transport Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Transport
It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J 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 Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Transport "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Transport
"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Transport If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton 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 The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson If God created us in His image we have certainly returned the compliment.
-- Voltaire 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 Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show Transport Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Transport
