There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr. "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Maps and Views Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Maps and Views
"I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain "I have no special gift; I am only passionately curious." (Albert Einstein) Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) 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
"Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett 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 Maps and Views "Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it." (Adlai Stevenson) The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to Maps and Views
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford "Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) Maps and Views "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley "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.) Maps and Views
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Maps and Views The church is the great lost and found department.
-- Robert Short If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Maps and Views
Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain 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 Maps and Views "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.
-- Rita Rudner Maps and Views
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes
in search of martyrdom is that the former expresses his idea most fully in death while the latter
really "Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Maps and Views Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
-- Abraham Lincoln In the early sixties, we were strong, we were virulent...
-- John Connally, Secretary of Treasury under Richard Nixon, in an early 70s speech, as reported
in a contemporary "American Scholar" Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
-- Mary Roberts Rhinehart Maps and Views
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
-- Harry Truman People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Maps and Views Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan Maps and Views
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius Maps and Views "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 Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Maps and Views
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 Maps and Views I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views
Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." (Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Maps and Views
