Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the
street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack
of u It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned.
-- Leslie Jeanne Sahler As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward Transport "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous Transport
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins 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 If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
to be, you know that there are...
-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands Transport "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Transport
"The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Transport We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
-- Buck Henry I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields 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 Transport
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves If you can't convince them, confuse them.
-- Harry S. Truman Transport What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Transport
"When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 Transport Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Transport
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. He sits on a hot stove for a
minute, it's longer than any hour. That is relativity.
-- Albert Einstein Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show 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 "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Transport "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Transport
"To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately
becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in
those tiny toil Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik Transport Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Transport
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Transport Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Silence is argument carried out by other means.
- ErnestoCheGuevara Transport
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Transport Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Transport
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough." (M. C. Escher) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard Transport 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
th "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Transport
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Transport "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) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Honorable, adj. Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative bodies, it is customary
to mention all members as honorable; as, ``the honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur.'
-- Bierce, A Transport
