Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin Transport We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Transport
I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Transport To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of
your life.
-- Abbie M. Dale ...the fog is rising.
-- Emily Dickinson, dying words When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being
brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.
-- Cynthia H Transport
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton "The face is the soul of the body." (Ludwig Wittgenstein) The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson 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 When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Transport
I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the
calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
-- Mark Twain If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams Transport Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.
-- M. C. Reed Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Transport
"Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-- Aldous Huxley He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Transport Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem Transport
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Transport "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) "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Transport
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Transport 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 A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Transport
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Transport "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Transport
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Transport My other wife is beautiful. Work is a four-letter word.
-- The Smiths (Morrissey) Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Transport
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Transport We do not remember days; we remember moments.
-- Anonymous 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 Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde Transport
In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.
-- Joseph Addison "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein Transport Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford Transport
