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The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) Transport I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Transport
"A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Transport "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Transport
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock.
-- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transport "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Transport
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action
of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Transport I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Transport
>From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Transport Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add
up.
-- Anon "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Transport
A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Transport It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Transport
Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Transport "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Transport
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Transport If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein Transport
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life
of another.
-- Helen Keller The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Transport Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Transport
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "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 Wilhelm Nietzsche) "When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one." (Helen Rowland) Transport Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison Transport
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "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) A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Transport It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln Transport
