Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.
-- Anon. I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec "I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so Amer "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Maps and Views "A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized." (Fred Allen) Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and
joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not
as Biography lends to death a new terror.
-- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views
Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
-- Ambrose Bierce I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach Maps and Views "People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying Maps and Views
I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
-- Woody Allen "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
added to the armamentarium of political inquiry. Anyone who cannot negotiate Chi squares,
assess randomi A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There
are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's
reall "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Maps and Views A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right." (Mark Twain) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Maps and Views
Where there is love there is life.
-- Gandhi "The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn." (David Russell) Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken "It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
-- Benjamin Franklin Maps and Views Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman "There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Maps and Views
Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.
-- Ambrose Bierce If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the
face of this earth.
-- Albert Einstein "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
-- Al Capone Maps and Views "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) "There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips." (Elsa Lanchester) 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 Fine art and pizza delivery: what we do falls neatly in between.
-- David Letterman Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from
both sides.
-- Margaret Thatcher But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) Maps and Views Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and
austere, like that of sculpture.
-- Bertrand Russell If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.
-- Thomas Szasz The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Maps and Views
"The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the
faculty of laughter.
-- Joseph Addison It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.
-- Josh Billings Maps and Views Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same
joke and still feel lonely.
-- T. S. Eliot Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to
do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to
substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
-- Iris Murdoch "'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, Through the Looking Glass) Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Maps and Views Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner "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
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford Maps and Views "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur "Think off-center." (George Carlin) Maps and Views
Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of
suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room.
-- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
-- Lauren Bacall Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-- Paul Boese There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Maps and Views Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- Henry Louis Mencken "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been
widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams Maps and Views
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
-- Jeff Raskin "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) "Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism
unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above
weakness If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Maps and Views A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
-- Albert Einstein You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
-- Henny Youngman Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant Maps and Views
