It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Transport I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Transport
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage Transport Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-- Aldous Huxley Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Transport
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Facts are the enemy of truth.
- Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill "I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten Transport If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet
enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent p Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Transport
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) If we don't change the direction we are going,
We are likely to end up where we are heading.
-- Chinese saying ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Transport "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him." (Galileo Galilei) When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William Transport
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.
-- Peter Ustinov Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Transport Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Transport
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
-- Carl Gustav Jung 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 Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words "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) "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Transport
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Transport Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Transport
When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Transport Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln Transport
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill Transport "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) "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) "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." (Pablo Picasso) Transport
"Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald Transport Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Transport
"In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
-- Oscar Wilde Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning 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 Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
-- George Bernard Shaw "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Transport
