"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul." (Isadora Duncan) Feminists are OK, I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one "I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have tv shows starring rubber sqeak
toys?
-- Douglas Coupland Maps and Views I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
- Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable
statues The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline
luggage.
-- Mark Russell When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Maps and Views
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
-- Bertolt Brecht "To be great is to be misunderstood." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the tongue.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views Men have become the tools of their tools.
- Henry David Thoreau ( A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Maps and Views
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Man and wife make one fool. The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live 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 Maps and Views Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the
wrong remedies.
-- Groucho Marx "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate
men.
-- Henry B. Adams Maps and Views
Genius has somewhat of the infantine; But of the childish not a touch or taint.
-- Robert Browning Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
-- George Jean Nathan America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle If a man is considered guilty for what goes on in his mind, give me the electric chair for all my
future crimes.
-- Prince Maps and Views A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde "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) Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting Maps and Views
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ine "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
-- Mark Twain Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
-- Jean de La Fontaine Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford Maps and Views As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics We look forward to the time when the power to love of will replace the love of power. Then will our
world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone Maps and Views
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Maps and Views Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
-- Ralph N. Gerard "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Maps and Views
A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water.
-- Sidney Goff 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 "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
-- Ed Howe Maps and Views Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
-- Sigmund Freud I could prove God statistically.
-- George Gallup blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Maps and Views
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words Maps and Views When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor Maps and Views
Life - a sexually transmitted terminal condition.
-- Walter Prager Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like
a black mistake.
-- D. H. Lawrence "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Maps and Views Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large
organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
-- Dave Barry It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Maps and Views
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
-- George Bernard Shaw Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're
entitled to a little fun first.
-- Anonymous I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins Maps and Views If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Maps and Views
Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?"
Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) 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 Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 Maps and Views Actually, the only memory I have of being a Cub Scout was trying to get my hat back. That was all
I did. Run back and forth at my bus stop going "Quit it."
-- Jerry Seinfeld 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 "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Maps and Views
