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Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln 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 The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Maps and Views I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
-- Fran Lebowitz Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce Maps and Views
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
-- W. Somerset Maugham 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 Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Maps and Views Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara Maps and Views
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him asleep.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
-- Emily Dickinson The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado Maps and Views Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land We have only one person to blame, and that's each other.
-- Barry Beck, New York Ranger, on who started a fight furing a hockey game The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Maps and Views
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
-- Mark Twain There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch.
-- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the
House blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Maps and Views All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler Maps and Views
If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.
-- G. K. Chesterton The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
it.
-- Colin Wilson Maps and Views "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Maps and Views
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The
premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
-- Kelvin Throop I Maps and Views When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer I drink no more than a sponge.
-- Francis Rabelais, Works. Book i. Chap. v. Maps and Views
If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Maps and Views It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Maps and Views
"Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) "My daughter has never forgiven me. for what, I don't know, because for years, she won't speak to me. She blackens my name in the press and makes me think abortion is an excellent idea." (Klaus Kinsk People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
-- Finley Peter Dunne Maps and Views "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Maps and Views
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon blah bl "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning, but without understanding." (Louis Brandeis) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Maps and Views This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous 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
"It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that.
-- Shakespeare, William "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Maps and Views The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Maps and Views
A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) Maps and Views It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) My other wife is beautiful. Maps and Views
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