Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Transport We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and
quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that
remains fa Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige Transport
It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of
fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality
and "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Transport "In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat." (Robert Byrne) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Transport
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Correction: Instead of being arrested, as we stated, for kicking his wife down a flight of stairs and hurling a lighted kerosene lamp after her, the Rev. James P. Wellman died unmarried four years ago The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Transport If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano Transport
Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
-- Wehrner von Braun "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink Transport "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) Transport
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Transport "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Transport
I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
-- Margaret Atwood Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Transport Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Say goodbye to the oldies, but goodies, because the good old days weren't always good and
tomorrow aint as bad as it seems.
-- Billy Joel Transport
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Transport Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen.
-- Albert Einstein "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any compliment and limit, but only o Transport
"So little done, so much to do." (Cecil Rhodes) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford I married beneath me. All women do.
-- Lady Nancy Astor, attributed "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transport The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Transport
I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be
paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and, because it takes a man's
life Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison Transport Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Transport
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 There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal Transport The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
-- Isaac B. Singer Transport
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) blah "The best students always are flunking. Every good teacher knows that." (Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Transport "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Transport
