They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Maps and Views Such is life.
-- Ned Kelly, Last words, before being hung at Old Melbourne Gaol "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Maps and Views
My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together....
-- Carl Zwanzig "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) Maps and Views The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
-- Anonymous I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how
to make it interesting.
-- Milton Berle, when called to the microphone at the 2nd Annual Comedians Hal Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Maps and Views
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 don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
-- Elvis Presley The sun never sets on the British empire because Britain is in the east and the sun sets in the
west.
-- Unknown history student Every man knows his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
-- Josh Billings "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 Maps and Views Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
-- Paula Poundstone The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Maps and Views
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
-- Henry Ford "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have
to shave twice a day.
-- Adlai Stevenson "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said,
"Would you like some fries with that?"
-- Jay Leno Maps and Views Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) Nuns: Women who marry God. If they divorce Him, do they get half the universe? Maps and Views
A man who marries a woman to educate her falls a victim to the same fallacy as the woman who
marries a man to reform him.
-- Elbert Hubbard The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
-- Thomas Jefferson "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
-- John Powell As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln Maps and Views blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
-- Pancho Villa, dying words The covers of this book are too far apart.
-- Ambrose Bierce Maps and Views
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
-- Polish proverb "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) Maps and Views Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Maps and Views
Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers By working faithfully eight hours a day, you might eventually get to be a boss and work twelve
hours a day.
-- ROBERT FROST Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. Maps and Views If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth "We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled but as candles to be lit." (Robert Shaffer) Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Maps and Views
The gods too are fond of a joke.
-- Aristotle Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her
have her own way.
-- Anonymous "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.
-- Pope John Paul I Maps and Views "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Maps and Views
Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley All human actions are equivalent... and... all are on principle doomed...
-- Jean-Paul Sartre, "Being and Nothingness" We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken Here's to you and here's to me,
and I hope we never disagree.
But, if that should ever be,
to HELL with you, here's to ME!
-- Anonymous Maps and Views Guide to understanding a net.addict's day:
Slow day: didn't have much to do, so spent three hours on usenet.
Busy day: managed to work in three hours of usenet.
Bad day: barely squeezed in three ho "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Maps and Views
"No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.
-- Tom Lehrer "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) "Mothers spend a lifetime excising from their sons the influence of their fathers." (Arthur Lotti) Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess Maps and Views "The overman ... Who has organized the chaos of his passions, given style to his character, and become creative. Aware of life's terrors, he affirms life without resentment." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietz "Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong." (Muhammad Ali) "It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Maps and Views
Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday
afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz "One can do without people but one has need of a friend." (Chinese Proverb) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any
antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.
-- Alfred Hitchcock Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Maps and Views Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac A small family is soon provided for.
-- English Proverb Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 Maps and Views
