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"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples'
decisions for them?
-- Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder Transport Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.
-- Anonymous Transport
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 Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Transport Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.
-- George Burns I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.
- Cicero Transport
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Transport If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-- George Gobel "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous Transport
For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot. We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Transport University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Transport
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
-- Byrd Baggett I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Transport Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
-- Oscar Wilde Transport
"I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "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) "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) Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read.
-- Button from the Computer Museum, Boston, MA Transport Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Transport
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when
we created them.
- Albert Einstein There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Transport People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) Transport
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transport Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Half of the American people never read a newspaper.
Half never voted for President.
One hopes it is the same half.
-- Gore Vidal Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Transport
"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) I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Transport Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Transport
It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham 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 Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Transport
"All women love the men they fear. All women kiss the hand that rules them." (Lionel Atwill) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost That's the nature of research--you don't know what in hell you're doing.
-- 'Doc' Edgerton Transport blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Transport
