Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Transport Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan Transport
"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Transport Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy 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 Transport
We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think.
-- Anne S Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Transport "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty Transport
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
him.
-- Rich Little A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau Transport It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. [...] The
average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted
to Transport
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
-- Benjamin Franklin Transport We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) Transport
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Transport You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Transport
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb 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 Logic is in the eye of the logician.
- Gloria Steinem Transport "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Transport
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Transport These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Transport
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) I believe that mink are raised for being turned into fur coats and if we didn't wear fur coats those
little animals would never have been born. So is it better not to have been born or to have lived I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?
-- Jim Scheibel, mayor, St. Paul MN Transport Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright Transport
I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.
-- John Murray "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) Transport Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Transport
The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Transport The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker
room is the temple where they worship arrested development.
-- Russell Baker Transport
