We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill Transport 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 Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Transport
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Transport "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Transport
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend 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 "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 Transport All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Transport
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Transport "If you meet a woman that smokes cigars ... marry her." (Arthur Lotti) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Transport
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible
by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was
someone else.
-- Rogers The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood Transport Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student cannot imagine any condition which would cause this ship to founder. Modern shipbuilding has
gone beyond that.
-- E. I. Smith, Captain of the Titanic We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Transport
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. Transport It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Transport
Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Transport "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Transport
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Transport Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Transport
The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H The soul is healed by being with children.
-- Fyodor Dostoyevski "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Transport "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Transport
Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up
between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever.
-- Virginia Woolf Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Transport "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Transport
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Transport "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Transport
