Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
-- Thomas Jones At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard
the past.
-- Maurice Maeterlink It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
-- Nathan Hale Maps and Views We can do no great things; only small things with great love.
-- Mother Teresa To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre Maps and Views
Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically,
ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
-- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.
-- Bill Moyers A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Maps and Views The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One
cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the
marvelous str "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Maps and Views
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
-- Thomas Fuller, M.D. Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth
reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) "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) Maps and Views You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
-- Mark Twain Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Maps and Views
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer "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) Maps and Views "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Maps and Views
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crow Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education
without natural ability.
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title "I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman Maps and Views Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Maps and Views
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Maps and Views The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Maps and Views
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is not a ritual or an end. It is a long, intricate, intimate dance together and nothing
matters more than your own sense of balance and your choice of partner.
-- Amy Bloom Maps and Views If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Maps and Views
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines." (John Benfield) "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Maps and Views Is there life before death?
-- Belfast Graffito The fantasy which serves as a support for the figure of the Stalinist Communist is therefore
exactly the same as the fantasy which is at work in the Tom and Jerry cartoons.
-- Slavoj Zizek "It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing." (Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises) Maps and Views
Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth "Where there's a marriage without love there will be love without marriage." (Benjamin Franklin) If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Maps and Views Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein "Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
-- Fredrich Halm Maps and Views
And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
-- Henry James Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) All television is children's television.
-- Richard P. Adler Maps and Views A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
-- Fr. Jerome Cummings Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
-- Thomas Dekker Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or
can die.
-- Thomas Carlyle Maps and Views
The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley "He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches." (George Bernard Shaw) "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Maps and Views "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously u "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Maps and Views
