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I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.
-- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic
wastes to Third Wo 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 Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage,
he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it.
-- Helen Roland "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Motoring The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Motoring
"Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman "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) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Motoring "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac Motoring
"Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but
as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!"
-- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Motoring Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as
saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
-- Deborah Tan If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Motoring
Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Motoring "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) Motoring
Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Motoring If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott Motoring
Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) My opinions are my wife's, and she says I'm lucky to have them. "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson Motoring Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) Motoring
Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats 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" I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi Motoring It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Motoring
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain Motoring The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner Motoring
"Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. They had a dispute about a night out with the boys. But he finally decided to let her go.
-- Anonymous Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Motoring It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Motoring
We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to
me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
-- Lucille Ball Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
-- Bob Perelman My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous Motoring Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Motoring
A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
-- Baudelaire "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "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) Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Motoring Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Motoring
