Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Maps and Views The course of true love never did run smooth.
-- William Shakespeare The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Maps and Views
"Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
the procreation of children.
-- Thornton Wilder "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo Maps and Views Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes
unpunished.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley Maps and Views
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter.
-- N. D. Stice The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
-- Jackie Gleason I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist Maps and Views I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce 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 Maps and Views
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
futur Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up
our minds to walk boldly through them.
-- Orison Swett Marden blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Maps and Views
blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
-- William Hazlitt Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
-- Joseph Addison "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Maps and Views Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Did you ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you? But when you take him in
a car he sticks his head out the window.
-- Steve Bluestone 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
After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent "If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Maps and Views I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash "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
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Maps and Views Man and wife make one fool. And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth. -- John Lyly Maps and Views
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Maps and Views Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Maps and Views
I shall return.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
-- Samuel Johnson Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Maps and Views "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you." (Francois Sagan) Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes Maps and Views
The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Maps and Views It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Maps and Views
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance
- Oscar Wilde I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
-- Woody Allen "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
- Henry David Thoreau I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Maps and Views
