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He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Transport "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) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Transport
Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Transport One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Transport
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous "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) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Transport It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Transport
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning
it.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I
love you."
-- Erich Fromm People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Transport If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon 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 Transport
A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric I am not young enough to know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
-- Aesop If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Transport Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Transport
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Transport It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Transport
I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Transport The average person thinks he isn't.
- Father Larry Lorenzoni The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 Transport
Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Transport Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Transport
"I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov Transport Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "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) Transport
Assassins!
-- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Transport I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Transport
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "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) Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin Transport Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Transport
