May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Maps and Views "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware;
those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
-- Unknown author, Levitating T Maps and Views
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle
enough of them.
-- Flannery O'Connor No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. -- Honore de Balzac "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Maps and Views "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Maps and Views
"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) Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live
forever, "Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details." (Andy Warhol, America, 1985) your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Maps and Views Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry
that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Maps and Views
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has
come.
-- Victor Hugo If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel When people go to work, they shouldn't have to leave their hearts at home.
-- Betty Bender 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 Maps and Views An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
-- Robert A. Humphrey If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) Maps and Views
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa 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
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
- Henry Kissinger Maps and Views The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) Maps and Views
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
-- John Ciardi 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 A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Maps and Views 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 Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche Maps and Views
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-- Oscar Wilde Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show 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, Maps and Views A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence
University education.
-- George Bernard Shaw MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two
slaves, making in all, two.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) Maps and Views
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a
woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Maps and Views Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf Maps and Views
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing
nothing.
-- George Benard Shaw 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 At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in
every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents "He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." (Chinese Proverb) Maps and Views We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
-- Voltaire My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Maps and Views
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan. We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect.
-- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Maps and Views "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney "A thing of beauty is a joy forever." (John Keats) Maps and Views
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 "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) "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Maps and Views If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Maps and Views
