Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Maps and Views "Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food." (George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman) If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Maps and Views
I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
-- Carol Leifer We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.
-- Will Rogers The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
-- Paul Ehrlich "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat Maps and Views The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed
desperation.
-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Maps and Views
True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is
always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
-- Friedrich Nietzsch If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton A man in the house is worth two in the street.
-- Mae West Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu Maps and Views The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of
them, it's considered to be your style.
-- Fred Astaire We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
-- Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries Maps and Views
"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Maps and Views Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. Considering the flames and intolerance, shouldn't USENET be spelled ABUSENET?
-- Michael Meissner We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset Maps and Views
I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Maps and Views I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is
not read.
-- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
-- Jules Combarieu "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." (Oscar Wilde) "Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil) Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking
everything praiseworthy in human life.
-- Joseph Addison Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.
-- Cousin Woodman Maps and Views
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Maps and Views "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Maps and Views
When yer in a funk, people in love are a royal pain in the patookus.
-- Portnoy, character in "Outland," comic strip by Berkely Breathed What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that
cannot be taken from you.
-- Oscar Wilde If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Maps and Views The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Maps and Views
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to
passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . .
grand "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Maps and Views In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. Maps and Views
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign Maps and Views Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Maps and Views
blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn't have any brains. I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous In the end, everything is a gag.
-- Charlie Chaplin Maps and Views Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) Maps and Views
