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-- Directions on moist towelette package I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Railways The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Railways
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi Railways I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde "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 "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Railways
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek Railways The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Railways
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 Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Railways The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Railways
2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Railways "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Railways
"True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Railways Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Railways
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves Railways "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Railways
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Railways Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb 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 Railways
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Railways The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe Railways
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have
had any experience with them.
-- H. L. Mencken Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Railways We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Railways
Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) 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 "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Railways A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Railways
