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We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with
the wish to teach himself.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
-- Francis Bacon Maps and Views You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's
arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.
-- Jonathan Carroll, Outside Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it
is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer Maps and Views
The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
-- Nicholas Murray Butler A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Maps and Views "College: two hundred people reading same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) Maps and Views
May you never leave your marriage alive. "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) LOVE, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the
influences under which he incurred the disorder... It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the
physician I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Maps and Views "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Maps and Views
No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law It is never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot Maps and Views Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views
Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise." (Alice Walker) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby
see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.
-- Vincent Van Gogh Maps and Views See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?
-- Will Rogers, to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones
was alive.
-- G. K. Chesterton To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi Maps and Views
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
-- Mae West A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is
something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
-- Albert Einstein, attributed Maps and Views "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good
results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.
-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Maps and Views
Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-- Virginia Woolf I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs
long enough."
-- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D Maps and Views Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing
changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. Maps and Views
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
-- Oscar Wilde We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
-- G. K. Chesterton It is not because it is difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are
difficult.
-- Lucius Anneaus Seneca Maps and Views In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings "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) Maps and Views
A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your
girdle when your hips stick.
-- Ogden Nash Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
-- Red Buttons "The monster a child knows best and is most concerned with [is] the monster he feels or fears himself to be. " (Bruno Bettelheim, child psychologist) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Maps and Views I just want what every married woman wants, someone besides her husband to sleep with.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Maps and Views
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "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) Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
-- Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
-- Eddie Rickenbacker It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-- Aldous Huxley Maps and Views "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.
-- Anon. Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
-- Groucho Marx Maps and Views
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
-- Mme de Staël "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
-- Helen Keller "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how
many can get through to you.
-- Mortimer J. Adler Maps and Views Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin Maps and Views
