In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Marriage is love. Love is blind. Therefore, marriage is an institution for the blind. "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Transport You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Transport
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Transport I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Transport
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
-- T.S. Eliot Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Transport We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Transport
Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another
hanging on to his coattails.
-- H. L. Mencken Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with
the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover,
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire Transport Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
-- Robert Frost A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board Transport The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show Transport
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Transport 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 Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
-- Rose Franken Transport
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Transport "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) 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 The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Transport
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
-- Michael Leunig Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the
mother.
-- Claudette Colbert A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Transport "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Transport
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Transport "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Transport
There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Transport They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
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Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Transport He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Transport
