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"Failure is not an option!" (Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Transport I envy people who drink -- at least they know what to blame everything on.
-- Oscar Levant When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. Transport
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Transport When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde Transport
A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Transport In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Transport
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Transport Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
-- Sun Tzu In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without
feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex,
the ugl Transport
"Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in
freedom.
-- Albert Einstein When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Transport Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) Transport
"Every great institution is the lengthened shadow of a single man. His character determines the character of the organization." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Transport Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Transport
Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Transport I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Transport
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Transport Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Transport
"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) 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 Cricket is best described as organised loafing.
-- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Transport If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Transport
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 What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins Transport Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Transport
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Live TV died in the late 1950s, electronic bulletin boards came along in the mid-1980s, meaning
there was about a 25-year gap when it was difficult to put your foot in your mouth and have
people all Transport In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Transport
