Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) Transport However, never daunted, I will cope with adversity in my usual manner...sulking and nausea.
-- Tom K. Ryan We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
-- John Webster There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Transport
To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) Transport "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
-- Abraham Lincoln Transport
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully
ignorant.
--John Simon "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde 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 Transport "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Transport
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
-- Jim Beggs Transport His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Transport
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Transport Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
- Ross MacDonald No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) Transport
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "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) "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Transport 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 I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous Transport
"I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen Transport Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's
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Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the
neighborhood.
-- Maya Angelou No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the
purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
-- Anatole France "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Transport My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Transport
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken 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 Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement
speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have
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Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous When looking back, usually I'm more sorry for the things I didn't do than for the things I shouldn't
have done.
-- Malcolm Forbes "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words Transport Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
Gracian A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Transport
Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Transport Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
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