The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Maps and Views "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy
together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back
on at Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views
Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. The first duty of love is to listen.
-- Paul Tillich Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene Maps and Views Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) Maps and Views
Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at.
-- Lyn Karol A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James We must become the change we want to see.
-- Gandhi "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Maps and Views When a man takes an oath, Meg, he's holding his ownself in his own hands. Like water. And if he
opens his fingers then- he needn't hope to find himself again.
-- Robert Bolt from A Man For All Seas I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.
-- Thomas Fuller, 1732 Maps and Views
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature
machine gun.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute
for life.
-- Andrew Brown The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
-- Cicero When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner Maps and Views "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Maps and Views
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
-- Harper Lee I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright Maps and Views "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?
- Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
-- Thomas Szasz Maps and Views
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i 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 "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words Maps and Views
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) I think, therefore I'm single.
-- Female philosopher A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
-- Buke Ellington "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Maps and Views A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.
-- Joe Early, Congressman (D-Mass), at a press conference to answer questions about the
House Bank scandal "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) Maps and Views
"Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) 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 "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Maps and Views Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
-- Michel de Montaigne Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( 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 Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
-- Mao Tse-tung The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
-- John Allston Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov Maps and Views The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw Maps and Views
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
-- General George Patton It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
-- Emiliano Zapata Maps and Views Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Maps and Views
blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. Maps and Views 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 Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Maps and Views
