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Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Maps and Views Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.
-- Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted
in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism.
-- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what Maps and Views
In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells Maps and Views "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "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, Alice in Wonderland Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Maps and Views
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
-- Dave Barry "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell Maps and Views Good hours, excellent pay, fun place to work, paid training, mean boss. Oh well, four out of five
isn't bad.
-- Help Wanted Ad, PA newspaper, 1994 I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Maps and Views
We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Maps and Views Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
-- Helen Keller When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
-- Hunter S. Thompson >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Maps and Views
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais You can observe a lot by watching.
-- Yogi Berra Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White Maps and Views He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY Maps and Views
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
-- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 "There is no sin except stupidity." (Oscar Wilde) To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Maps and Views
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) Maps and Views
If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having
passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it.
-- Anonymous Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the
source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity,
ign "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln Maps and Views "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. Maps and Views
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
-- Marcus Aurelius It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
-- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais "We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place." (Günther Grass, Winner of the Nobel Prize for Li A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can
decide that nothing can be done.
-- Fred Allen Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to
happen to him.
-- John Barrymore - last words Maps and Views It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the
outward behavior.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac Maps and Views
"To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) Maps and Views The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-- H. L. Mencken Maps and Views
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
-- Booker T. Washington Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep.
-- Albert Camus Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't
take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates...
-- Anonymous Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings.
-- Anonymous The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Maps and Views Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
-- John F. Kennedy Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
-- Jean Anouilh The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
generally they are the same people.
-- G. K. Chesterton Maps and Views
