Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of
existence.
-- Sydney Smith 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 "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) 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 Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Maps and Views "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u Maps and Views
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) 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 Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito Maps and Views 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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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Maps and Views
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th That government is best which governs least.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Maps and Views 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 "I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
-- Mae West Maps and Views
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch My good intentions are completely lethal.
-- Margaret Atwood A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein Maps and Views "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-- Edward Abbey You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Maps and Views
I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow 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 If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Maps and Views Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to
benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.
-- Ralph Mars I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Maps and Views
The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Maps and Views "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw Maps and Views
"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 difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
-- Tom Clancy The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning Maps and Views "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Maps and Views
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 Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-- Oscar Wilde You have to kiss a lot of toads before you find a handsome prince.
-- American Proverb It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.
-- John Heywood Maps and Views The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
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Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing
they die earlier.
-- H. L. Mencken Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Maps and Views 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 It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins Maps and Views
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Value your words. Each one may be the last.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
-- Anonymous 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 You can pay attention to the fact, in which case you'll probably become a mathematician, or you
can ignore it, in which case you'll probably become a physicist.
-- Len Evans, professor, Northwestern Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. Maps and Views
I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
-- Diane Ackerman "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken Maps and Views Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Maps and Views
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