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If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein 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) It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.
-- Jane Austen Utilities and Transport "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Utilities and Transport
There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock 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 He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill Utilities and Transport If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Utilities and Transport
Dear Mrs, Mr, Miss, or Mr and Mrs Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action. -- C 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 "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "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) Utilities and Transport "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) 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 You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth
without producing it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Utilities and Transport
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry Utilities and Transport It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Utilities and Transport
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Utilities and Transport "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks Utilities and Transport
Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?
-- James Thurber English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Utilities and Transport "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) Utilities and Transport
History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Utilities and Transport I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Utilities and Transport
"Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) 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 The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Utilities and Transport "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best
to become the best you are capable of becoming.
-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler Utilities and Transport
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before
marriage, which is never advisable.
-- Oscar Wilde The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Utilities and Transport 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 Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) Utilities and Transport
Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
-- Abraham Lincoln Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can
only read the title.
-- Virginia Woolf When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Utilities and Transport Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Utilities and Transport
He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
-- B. F. Skinner "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Utilities and Transport Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Utilities and Transport
