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Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Transport Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Therefore:
? In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its
duties.
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The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Transport An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) Transport
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Transport Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Transport
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted.
-- Albert Einstein It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Transport Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Transport
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) "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 A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?
-- Robert Browning The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) Transport Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire Transport
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Transport "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Transport
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Transport The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein Transport
"Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Transport The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Transport
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Transport "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical
deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
-- Albert Einstein A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Transport
Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Transport blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Transport
There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Transport "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Transport
