Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol "Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one." (Vladimir Nabokov) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous 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 Maps and Views Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings Maps and Views
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron "Everything in my life has been determined by mistakes." (Gene Wilder) The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Maps and Views "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
-- Mark Twain Maps and Views
"I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim
poses.
-- John Weitz, American Designer The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church.
-- G. K. Chesterton An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "Murderers have been known to find that young girls give them more trouble than anybody else." (Jean Cocteau, Les Enfants Terribles) "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) Maps and Views
"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Maps and Views All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) 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) Maps and Views
To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Maps and Views "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "I like boring things." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Maps and Views
"The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Maps and Views Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Maps and Views
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside "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) Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views
Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Maps and Views It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out.
-- Rick Radebaugh The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume Maps and Views
Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He
experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest--a kind of
optic Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
-- Salvador Dali Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Maps and Views Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker A girl must marry for love and keep on marrying until she finds it.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol Maps and Views
If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all.
-- Rodney Dangerfield It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are
romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they
couldn't cha "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 We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
-- Cybi I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't
certain we knew better.
-- George Bird Evans Maps and Views Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
-- John Lyly "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." (Emma Lazarus) Maps and Views
The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon "A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Maps and Views The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My
answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer
to that would be Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard Maps and Views
