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The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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 There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Maps and Views Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
-- Mike Adams May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Marriage is like a mousetrap. Those on the outside are trying to get in. Those on the inside are trying to get out. Maps and Views
"Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas in a review Maps and Views "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr. Maps and Views
The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.
-- Karl Barth Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
-- Anonymous How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an
afternoon.
-- Giraudoux "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Maps and Views "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Maps and Views
"The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
-- St. Francis of Assisi 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 blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
-- Ziggy, character in comic strip by Tom Wilson blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Maps and Views
Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business.
-- Abraham Lincoln If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.
-- Anon. Maps and Views If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
-- Voltaire "The intellect is always fooled by the heart." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them
down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken Maps and Views
Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills A kitten is chiefly remarkable for rushing about like mad at nothing whatever, and generally
stopping before it gets there.
-- Agnes Repplier Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat 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 "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Maps and Views "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H "Great spirits have always faced voilent protest from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein) All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery
increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control
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Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss." (Hal Holbrook, Wallstreet) "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
-- Will Rogers Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life.
-- Alvin Toffler Maps and Views "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views
"Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
-- Helen Rowland My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Maps and Views "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
-- Abraham Lincoln Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Maps and Views
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley "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) "You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question." (Albert Camus, The Fall) He who dies a thousand deaths meets the final hour with the calmness of one who approaches a
well remembered door.
-- Heywood Brown Maps and Views "The brighter you are, the more you have to learn." (Don Herold) "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Maps and Views
Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 Maps and Views If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries Maps and Views
Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer Maps and Views "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Maps and Views
