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"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Transport I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Transport
Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Transport I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose
shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Transport
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 "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work.
-- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Transport Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "As is our confidence, so is our capacity." (William Hazlitt) The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry Louis Mencken Transport
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Transport There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) Transport
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Transport The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher Transport
The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Transport 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 I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Transport
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Transport It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are
legislators.
-- P. J. O'Rourke If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein Transport
I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Transport A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Transport
"The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous Transport Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to
realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and
grie Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Transport
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde Transport Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Transport
"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Transport The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge "Common sense and education are highly compatible; in fact, neither is worth much without the other." (Donald G. Smith) A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Transport
