Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte An understanding heart is everything is a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One
looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our
human There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
- Frank Zappa The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) Maps and Views "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) Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Maps and Views "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 A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
-- Kin Hubbard blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Maps and Views
I still live.
-- Daniel Webster, dying words 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 The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan Maps and Views Sex is God's joke on human beings.
-- Bette Davis I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Maps and Views
"Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we
respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Maps and Views "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
-- Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking
campaign Maps and Views
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson None but a good man is really a living man, and the more good any man does, the more he really
lives. All the rest is death, or belongs to it.
-- Herman Melville "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Maps and Views "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their
teachers.
-- Socrates Maps and Views
Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
-- Marion Barry, Mayor, Washington, D.C. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.
-- Lao Tzu Study men, not historians.
-- Harry Truman Maps and Views
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
-- Charles Evans Hughes "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Maps and Views "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views
Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
-- Max Frisch Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half shut afterwards.
-- Benjamin Franklin Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Maps and Views Courage is the price that Love exacts for granting peace.
-- Amelia Earhart Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Maps and Views
"Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. you only need a heart full
of grac Maps and Views "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Maps and Views
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan There are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
-- Albert Schweitzer "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana Maps and Views A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
- Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Maps and Views
We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were
reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing,
and Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the
false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells Maps and Views Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein Maps and Views
