"Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his
life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
-- Francois Cavanna It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe Maps and Views Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 The love we give away is the only love we keep.
-- Elbert Hubbard Maps and Views
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 Maps and Views I hate women because they always know where things are.
-- James Thurber Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views
"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Maps and Views As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-- George Bernard Shaw I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Maps and Views
He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
- H. H. Munro (Saki) I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in
charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
-- Hen This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker 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 The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr Maps and Views "True friends, like diamonds, are precious and rare. False friends, like autumn leaves, are found everywhere." (Anonymous) We didn't send you to Washington to make intelligent decisions. We sent you to represent us.
-- Kent York, Baptist minister to US Rep. Bill Sarpalius Early to rise and early to bed.
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
-- James Thurber Maps and Views
I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West "Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
-- Peter De Vries What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley Maps and Views You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued.
-- Helen Rowland "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) Maps and Views
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Maps and Views
Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
-- John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy, 1981-1987 Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Maps and Views
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science.
-- Albert Einstein A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff "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) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Maps and Views "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Maps and Views
I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau 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 One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Maps and Views Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Maps and Views
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Maps and Views Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph 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 Maps and Views
"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 "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) "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) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Maps and Views Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
machi The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Maps and Views
