A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana "If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." (Albert Einstein) 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
ha "If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change." (John A. Simone Sr.) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Maps and Views The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Maps and Views
"Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull 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 "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 Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Maps and Views Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." Maps and Views
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Maps and Views Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
-- Jenny Weber Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Maps and Views
"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
- H. M. Warner, founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise How could they tell?
-- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died Maps and Views It depends on your definition of asleep. They were not stretched out. They had their eyes closed.
They were seated at their desks with their heads in a nodding position.
-- John Hogan, Commonwealth "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." (Albert Einstein) Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
-- LaRouchefoucauld Maps and Views
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.
-- Paul Valery It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings Maps and Views "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool.
-- Voltaire Maps and Views
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm-fleshed yet yielding to the
touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
-- Jonathan S. Haas To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Maps and Views Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up
something appropriate and do it.
-- E. W. Howe "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Maps and Views
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi Maps and Views Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Maps and Views
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live." (Alexander Dumas) Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde "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) Maps and Views Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Maps and Views
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
- Jean-Paul Sartre "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 True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell Maps and Views Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous 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 The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig Maps and Views
>From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some
day I intend reading it.
-- Groucho Marx I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
-- Benjamin Disraeli There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its
coattails.
-- Clarence Darrow Maps and Views "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) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Maps and Views
Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.
-- Phyllis Diller "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Maps and Views Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Maps and Views
