I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Transport Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Transport
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Transport That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) Transport
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little Transport Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Theodore Sturgeon Transport
Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert 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 In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Transport Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer 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 then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Transport
"We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Transport Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land 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 I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Transport
The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds. That deeply emotional
convi Transport "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Transport
"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' 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 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Transport Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Transport
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Transport Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen 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 "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t Transport
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "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 With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.
-- Abraham Lincoln The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transport "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu 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 Transport
We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Transport Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Transport
Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm Transport And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Transport
