The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
bad ones.
-- W. Somerset Maugham "I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury." (Groucho Marx) Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.
- Lewis Perelman True thinkers are characterised by a blending of clearness and mystery.
-- Victor Hugo Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin Maps Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Maps
"A wise man among the ignorant is as a beautiful girl in the company of blind men." (Saadi) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty "Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information, which is how I got a good job in journalism." (Dave Barry) Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker Maps I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul.
-- Jean Cocteau If you are all wrapped up in yourself, you are overdressed
-- Kate Halverson Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true.
-- Anon. Maps
For I am a bear of very little brain and long words bother me.
-- Winnie the Pooh, character from author A. A. Milne A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) My wife has a split personality, and I hate both of them. Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
-- George E. Woodberry Maps Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol >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 "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Maps
"I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over
them on long winter evenings.
-- Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in "The Big Sleep" Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.
-- Rose Kennedy, (1890-1995) family matriarch, on her 100th birthday, 1991 The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
-- Kin Hubbard Maps You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they
do.
-- Olin Miller "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Maps
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf 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 Maps I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
-- Henry James "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject,
when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron
scumbags dev Maps
Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige When I have a kid, I wanna put him in one of those strollers for twins, then run around the mall
looking frantic.
-- Steven Wright They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so
brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.
-- Cindy Crawford, supermodel Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-- Victor Hugo Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Maps I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
-- Oscar Wilde "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." (Socrates) This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper Maps
"This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
-- Edward Chilton Maps We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
philosopher.
- Socrates If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker Maps
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities,
talents, direction, missions, callings.
-- Abraham Maslow Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great.
-- William Shakespeare, Henry IV All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Maps Thought is action in rehearsal.
-- Sigmund Freud "From the start, marriage was instituted for contemptible, practical reasons--an idea of men." (Catherine Deneuve) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
-- Victor Borge Maps
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy and
stupid from "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Maps Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that
can be shot when it breaks down.
-- Russell Baker "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter." (Blaise Pascal) We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Maps
Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
--Anon. We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.
-- Horace Walpole Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Maps If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
-- Virginia Woolf Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard
Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
-- Gore Vidal Maps
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. 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 "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and
flattens the stomachs.
-- Barbara Howar Maps "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) Every flower must grow through dirt.
-- Anonymous "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Maps
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