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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
- John D. Rockefeller "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Transport Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Transport
Never moon a werewolf.
-- Mike Binder There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech.
-- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his
campaign pledge that there would be We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster Transport Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester 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 Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Transport
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Transport Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben Transport
"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 I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Transport Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell 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 As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Transport
Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." (Benjamin Fran There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good
marriage
-- Martin Luther There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 Transport Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson "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 Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
-- G. K. Chesterton Transport
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) You can close your eyes to reality, but not to memories.
-- Stanislaw J. Lem The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Transport "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Transport
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be
said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot
successfully The nourishment is palatable.
-- Millard Fillmore, dying words When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Transport Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies Transport
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Transport Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate
chastisement.
-- Ernest Dimnet Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton Transport
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) Transport If God does not exist, then everything is permitted.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Devils Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash Transport
Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
-- Samuel Butler "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Transport 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 Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Transport
If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Transport If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
-- Johnny Carson Transport
