I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) 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 Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung Railways Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Railways
The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." (William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II:5) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Railways The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Railways
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh "Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives." (Gary Busey) The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia Railways I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Railways
Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!
-- Rory Bremner "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Railways The less their ability, the more their conceit.
Ahad HaAm Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Railways
The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Railways The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does
not stop until you get into the office.
-- Robert Frost Railways
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 Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Railways Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman Railways
"Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Laundry increases exponentially in the number of children.
-- Miriam Robbins "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf Railways This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) Railways
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn Railways The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Railways
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
-- Aristotle Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Railways You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By
giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you
will In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Railways
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "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) 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 Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw Railways "To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Railways
"Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Railways If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
-- Karen Sunde Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Railways
