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"To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Never try to teach a pig to sing. It's a waste of your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anon. "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle Transport "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Transport
There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." (Charles Caleb Colton) Transport "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles Transport
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner Transport "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Transport
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
-- Mae West Transport A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide 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 Transport
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "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) I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Transport Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Transport
Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of
hers.
-- Anonymous In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Transport The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- 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 "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Transport
"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the
instrument plays itself.
-- Johann Sebastian Bach Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Transport Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to
heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need
more supervision.
-- Lynn Transport
"The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Transport "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Transport
Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Transport God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart Transport
In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve
them.
-- Robert Graves "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Transport "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins Transport
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
-- Clarence Darrow The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer." (Jack Handey) Transport Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Transport
