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 "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time Transport A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.
- Von Clausewitz You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Transport
Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition.
-- Jacques Barzun It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce Transport Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) Transport
"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) Transport The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) Transport
Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Transport "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882 - 1944) Transport
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Transport In the blithe days of honeymoon,
With Kate's allurements smitten,
I lov'd her late, I lov'd her soon,
And call'd her dearest kitten.
But now my kitten's grown a cat,
And cross like other wives.
I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Transport
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Transport If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words Transport
Live truth instead of professing it.
-- Elbert Hubbard All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
-- Mother Teresa "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Transport "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked
where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Transport
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
-- Dean Acheson This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Transport I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Transport
"I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "I should reproach him for not giving us enough evidence." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970, what he would say to God if they 'met') Transport Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett Transport
"I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous The difference between marriage and death? Dead people are free. "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Transport "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Transport
This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't
work and the Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Transport The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the
table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the
disg By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Transport
