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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick You can always amend a big plan, but you can never expand a little one. I don't believe in little
plans. I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.
-- Ha "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The I guess the only way to stop divorce is to stop marriage.
-- Will Rogers There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Maps and Views Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and He who laughs last didn't get it.
-- Helen Giangregorio Maps and Views
"The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
-- Sam Kinison Maps and Views Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson Honolulu, it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother.
-- Ken Dodd Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Maps and Views
Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. 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 "Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Maps and Views Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely
pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.
-- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Maps and Views
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 An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude.
-- Oscar Wilde Cliches should be avoided like the plague.
-- Anon. There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Maps and Views To be able to say how much love, is love but little.
-- Petrarch There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Maps and Views
I think every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget.
-- Adela Rogers St. John To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Maps and Views I was going to change my shirt, but I changed my mind instead.
-- Winnie the Pooh The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is not a word. It is a sentence--a life sentence. Maps and Views
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) 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 Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Maps and Views A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I Maps and Views
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too
conservative.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Maps and Views The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Maps and Views
If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is
the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be
cr "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Maps and Views It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy
the waking hours much more.
-- Woody Allen Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
-- Groucho Marx Maps and Views
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Maps and Views After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-- H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
-- Yogi Berra Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
-- Igor Stravinsky Maps and Views
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss, when informed that his wife was dying Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus 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 The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
"Eureka!", but "That's funny..."
-- Isaac Asimov Maps and Views I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Maps and Views
"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) "It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." (George Washington) Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) "One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries." (A. A. Milne) Maps and Views The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken Maps and Views
