More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "I think you should defend to the death their right to march, and then go down and meet them with baseball bats." (Woody Allen, in regard to the KKK) The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
bre Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
-- Harriet Beecher Stowe Maps and Views He who knows nothing, knows nothing. But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. And he who knows someone whose friend's wife's brother knows nothing, he knows something. Or something like that "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Maps and Views
A person should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words
that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-- Alexander Pope Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Maps and Views Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same
direction.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein Maps and Views
The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
-- Winston Churchill 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 Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause
we believe to be just.
-- Abraham Lincoln Maps and Views If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly.
-- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Maps and Views
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 Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- PJ O'Rourke All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein Maps and Views Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!
-- Steven Wright A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Maps and Views
"In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) Maps and Views Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-- Christopher Morley Maps and Views
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
-- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some
simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion.
-- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 "One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Maps and Views "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) 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 "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Maps and Views
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a
lot less.
-- Brendon Behan Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers Maps and Views Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.
-- Vernon Law Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
-- Andy Warhol Maps and Views
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
-- Kingsley Amis There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Maps and Views Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Maps and Views
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth 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 blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( Beginning in February 1976 your assistance benefits will be discontinued ... Reason: it has been
reported to our office that you expired on January 1, 1976.
-- excerpt from a letter, Illinois Depart "Marriage excuses no one the freak's roll-call." (Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw) Maps and Views Shotgun wedding: a case of wife or death More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Maps and Views
If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.
-- Mark Twain Many a wife thinks her husband is the world's greatest lover. But she can never catch him at it. Maps and Views When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
-- Sioux Indian Prayer Maps and Views
"God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
-- Lewis Grizzard "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) Maps and Views Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Maps and Views
