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The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar "Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Maps and Views Bachelor: the only man who has never told his wife a lie. Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree
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A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead 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 "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the
opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-- Oscar W Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get
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-- David Mamet Maps and Views
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
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-- Joan Crawford Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody The child is the father of the man.
-- William Wordsworth Maps and Views 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 Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Maps and Views
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
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-- Stephen Leacock We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we
were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
-- John Stuart Mill "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) Maps and Views Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
-- Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) Maps and Views
If excessive smoking actually plays a role in the production of lung cancer, it seems to be a minor
one.
-- Dr. W.C. Heuper of the National Cancer Institute, as quoted in the New York Times on Apri The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness!
-- Mark Russell Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.
-- Arthur C. Coxe "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Maps and Views "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and
why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inex He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
- Abraham Lincoln Maps and Views
Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to
contact us.
-- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
-- Plutarch All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.
-- Anonymous The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
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-- Voltaire Maps and Views
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
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-- Abraham Lincoln "What dies if freedom lives? What lives if freedom dies?" (Lindsay Anderson, British filmmaker, from if.... (1968) "Conforming is only acceptable when you conform with a nonconformist." (John A. Simone Jr.) Maps and Views May you be blessed with a wife so healthy and strong, she can pull the plow when your horse drops dead. "When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Maps and Views
Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
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-- Laundry instructions on a shirt "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Maps and Views Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus Maps and Views
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with
the powerful, not to be neutral.
-- Paulo Freire Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Maps and Views "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Maps and Views
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) People only see what they are prepared to see.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Now comes the mystery.
-- Henry Ward Beecher, dying words, March 8, 1887 I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.
-- Mark Twain Maps and Views Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
-- Anonymous Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet
not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
-- François de La Rouch Maps and Views
"The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and
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-- Elbert Hubbard "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." (George Orwell) The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
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