I am about to--or I am going to--die; either expression is used.
-- Dominique Bouhours, French grammarian, dying words .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron Maps and Views blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Maps and Views
"The most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies, for instance." (John Ruskin) For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of
pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
-- Lyster Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.
-- William Temple Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Maps and Views Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Maps and Views
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Maps and Views Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Maps and Views
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
-- Margo Kaufman The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson Maps and Views The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson Women's liberationists spread the word that...the only peaceful family is one in which either the
wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.
-- R. Emmett Tyell, The Liberal Crack-Up, 1984 Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Maps and Views
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV Maps and Views Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
- Robert Frost He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr Maps and Views
Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling "Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams." (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet, novelist and filmmaker) I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University Maps and Views I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness 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 It is absurd to divide people into good or bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-- Oscar Wilde What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call
me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
-- Rebecca West, Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Maps and Views We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
-- Winston Churchill Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Maps and Views
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 The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
-- Albert Einstein "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Maps and Views Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Maps and Views
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
-- Helen Rowland Maps and Views There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "To avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." (Elbert Hubbard, American author, 1856-1915) Maps and Views
A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
-- Michael Winner Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "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 Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw 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 Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
-- H. L. Mencken Maps and Views
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin The imaginary friends I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn't exist.
-- Aaron Machado "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
-- Carol Burnett Maps and Views 'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
-- ee cummings In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James Maps and Views
