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The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be "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) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
-- Elbert Hubbard A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world." (Blaise Pascal) A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
-- Euripides Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) More light!
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) He who receives an idea from me receives instruction for himself without lessening mine; as he
who lights his taper at mine receives light without darkening me.
-- Thomas Jefferson Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken "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 Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) "No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) "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) Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
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 Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence.
-- Essie Summers Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen 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 When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's right honorable.
-- Beaumont, Francis Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
- Frederick (II) the Great Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
