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A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries Transport Asking an incumbent member of Congress to vote for term limits is a bit like asking a chicken to
vote for Colonel Sanders.
-- Bob Inglis, 1995 "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Transport
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
-- Thornton Wilder Transport The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Transport
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap.
-- Dolly Parton "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Transport To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Transport
When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Transport The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht Transport
My other wife is beautiful. He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Transport "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Transport
Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
-- John Stuart Mill 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.
? Work Transport Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Transport
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Transport Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Transport
God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Transport I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
th Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) Transport
Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Transport Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Transport
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller Transport This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Transport
"As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler 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 I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Transport
