If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Transport You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Transport
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend." (Jacques Derrida, French 'deconstructionist') I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain 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 For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw Transport Hey, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!
-- Dr. Strangelove "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Transport
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand.
-- Charles Pierce The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James Transport "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Transport
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Transport "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Transport
No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) Transport I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. we are for the most part
more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
-- Thoreau A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Transport
"Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Transport Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.
-- Tom Robbins "I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (Alan Watts) Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins Transport
We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca Transport I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje Laywers, I suppose, were children once.
-- Charles Lamb Transport
"Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one
is.
-- Arnold Bennett NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
-- Clarence Darrow Transport Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
-- H. L. Mencken Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Transport
"I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "God's creatures, great and small ... eat them one, eat them all." (John A. Simone Sr.) "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Transport Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Transport
The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
-- Yiddish Proverb Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
-- Clifton Fadiman Transport "The reward of a thing well done is having done it." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
-- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Transport
LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician 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 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 Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Transport First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi Did you hear about the scientist whose wife had twins? He baptized one and kept the other as a control. There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
-- Steven Wright Transport
