If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright "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 Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure 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 "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Maps and Views Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes Maps and Views
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Maps and Views The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Maps and Views
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
-- John F. Kennedy Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Maps and Views Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
-- Anne Bradstreet Maps and Views
"Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.
-- Anonymous Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
-- Bern Williams It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
-- Unknown history student Maps and Views We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland Maps and Views
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
- Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Maps and Views Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "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
Obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the
child.
-- Anne Sullivan The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." (E. B. White) I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Maps and Views Love is stronger than justice.
-- Sting "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert Maps and Views
I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them
missionaries for dinner.
-- H. L. Mencken In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Maps and Views Coffee is a beverage that puts one to sleep when not drank.
-- Alphonse Allais You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
-- Beverly Sills "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) Maps and Views
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What a difference there is between what we say and what we think.
-- Racine Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Maps and Views "'Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, 'if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!'" (Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass) If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.
-- James McNeill Whistler Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views
We can do not great things - only small things with great love.
-- Mother Theresa In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
-- Paul Eldridge I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
-- Virginia Woolf I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Maps and Views A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
-- Rose Kennedy blah "There is a melancholy that stems from greatness." (Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1740/41-1794) Maps and Views
It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
-- Douglas Adams Maps and Views "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt Maps and Views
Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Now is the time for all good men to come to.
-- Walt Kelly "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) "If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power, 1888) It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
-- Samuel Butler If your wife wants to learn how to drive, don't stand in her way. Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Maps and Views
