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"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 Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy 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 Transport After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol Transport
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel He would make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens Transport Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
-- Mark Twain Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Transport
"A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Transport Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. >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 If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers?
-- Calvin Trillin Transport
"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.
-- Wayne Gretzky I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.
- John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Transport "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Transport
The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Transport Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Transport
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 "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde Transport We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Transport
"I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Transport Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Transport
Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Transport Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop Transport
A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) 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 I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson Transport I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked
me in the cellar.
-- Anonymous "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Transport
"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein Transport I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the
betterment of life.
-- Henry Ford "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Transport
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Ambition is not a vice of little people.
-- Michel de Montaigne 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 Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Transport "Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation." (Larry Flynt) 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 Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. Transport
