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"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m Transport The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton Transport
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on
tormenting the generations to come.
-- Montesquieu The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Transport Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room
enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
-- Fred Allen Transport
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "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) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Transport Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when
people laugh.
-- George Bernard Shaw Transport
"Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Transport 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 If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B Transport
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Transport I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Transport
"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Transport "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) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Transport
I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley Transport Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark
in one another.
-- Kenny Ausubel The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') Transport
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
-- Shane Leslie We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Transport Nobody ever died of laughter.
-- Max Beerbohm The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-- Lily Tomlin "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Transport
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to
be grateful.
-- Phyllis McGinley It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi Transport A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Eschew the ordinary, disdain the commonplace. If you have a single-minded need for something, let it be the unusual, the esoteric, the bizarre, the unexpected..." (Chuck Jones) If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Transport
I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Transport In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Transport
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll When you've spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment... it's
exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the Falklands Conflict History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transport I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.
-- Wilson Mizner If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Transport
