When you're away, I'm restless, lonely
Wretched, bored, dejected; only
here's the rub, my darling dear,
I feel the same when you are here.
-- Samuel Hoffenstein Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Cat's Cradle "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) Maps and Views When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
-- George Bus Maps and Views
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error
that provoked it.
-- Alvin Toffler "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr "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 Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Maps and Views It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing.
-- Georges Danton, to his executioner "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) 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 A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its
prime function of looking forward.
-- Margaret Fairless Barber Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Maps and Views Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke Mary had a little lamb and the doctor fainted.
-- Anonymous Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own
language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Maps and Views
There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. Maps and Views 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 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 "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Maps and Views
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats Women and Cats will do as they please. Men and dogs had better get used to it.
-- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love, Lazarus Long The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz 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 Maps and Views Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
-- P. J. O'Rourke The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Maps and Views
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner 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. "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 Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller Maps and Views People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend.
-- Walter Savage Landor "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) Maps and Views
"Club Secretary: I say, Lawrence. You are a clown!
Lawrence: We can't all be lion tamers." (Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-
knowing.
- Henry Louis Mencken Maps and Views Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
-- Lewis Grizzard Maps and Views
Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
-- Albert Einstein We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins 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 Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Maps and Views Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of
poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
-- John Cage Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings Maps and Views
Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
- chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position Maps and Views
"God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom) "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
-- Arthur Schoperhauer "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Maps and Views To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Maps and Views
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
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." (Samuel Butler) Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.
-- Sigmund Freud I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown Maps and Views Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Maps and Views
