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The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you
underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Maps and Views Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) Maps and Views
"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) Giving a man space is like giving a dog a computer: the chances are he will not use it wisely.
-- Bette-Jane Raphael He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose
-- Jim Elliott They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to
get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
-- Billie Holliday "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) 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 If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) Maps and Views
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates Maps and Views Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
-- Samuel Butler "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Maps and Views
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. 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 love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Maps and Views The time is always right to do what is right.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
-- Will Rogers Maps and Views
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The
great teacher inspires.
-- William Arthur Ward 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 I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw Maps and Views "The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." (Albert Einstein) A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Maps and Views
When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask
is a chance."
-- Anon. Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
-- Aristotle Maps and Views This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Faith is believing what you know ain't so.
-- Mark Twain Maps and Views
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
-- Christopher Morley Remember your dreams.
-- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
-- John Stuart Mill Maps and Views This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Maps and Views
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev The wise see knowledge and action as one; they see truly.
-- Bhagava Gita What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Maps and Views "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
-- Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin, 1973 Maps and Views
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
-- Thomas Carlyle Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau We love because it's the only true adventure.
-- Nikki Giovanni Maps and Views Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Maps and Views
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
-- George Bernard Shaw We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
-- George Bernard Shaw I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
-- Charlie Chaplin 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 Maps and Views "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl Maps and Views
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the
uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Maps and Views
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