Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) If men knew all that women think, they'd be twenty times more daring.
-- Alphonse Karr "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In
this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle.
-- Marianne Williamson He who limps is still walking.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec Maps and Views
I would have made a good Pope.
-- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
-- Danny Kaye Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Maps and Views "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open. -- Groucho Marx Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Maps and Views
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
what they want.
-- David Mamet The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the
moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future
generations "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow
extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins, Great Books, 1954 Maps and Views Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson "There are no uninteresting things, only uninteresting people." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Maps and Views
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 Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
-- T. S. Eliot "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and
"cheap"?
-- Phyllis Diller Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Maps and Views I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
-- George Bernard Shaw An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-- Sacha Guitry Maps and Views
The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-- Oscar Wilde The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Maps and Views The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
-- Woody Allen I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Maps and Views
Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.
- Albert Giacometti (sculptor) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Maps and Views And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin "Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great." (Fernando Flores) Maps and Views
God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if
he finds her.
-- Benjamin Tillett The trouble with children is that they are not returnable.
-- Quentin Crisp Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-- Ernest Hemingway Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Maps and Views Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of
opportunity.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views
Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is
merely a good excuse not to play football.
-- Fran Lebowitz Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Maps and Views "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
-- Mae West "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) Maps and Views
We are the echo of the future.
-- W. S. Merwin Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.
-- Anonymous That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
-- Gloria Vanderbilt "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Maps and Views 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Maps and Views
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.
-- Will Rogers You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it.
-- W.S. Gilbert Maps and Views In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are
apparently based Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Maps and Views
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
-- Thornton Wilder Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.
-- Anonymous Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
-- George Santayana Maps and Views Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. 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 History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
-- Winston Churchill Maps and Views
