Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you
have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
-- Aldous Huxley Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen We haven't the money, so we've got to think.
-- Lord Rutherford The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
- Henry Kissinger Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Maps and Views "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Maps and Views
"No one ever owns his youth or the women he loves." (Pedro Almodóvar, Live Flesh) "In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." (Eric Hoffer) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all
the time. That would be hypocrisy.
-- Oscar Wilde Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson Maps and Views
In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.
-- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon I like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.
-- Mae West Maps and Views Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana Realism is a corruption of reality.
-- Wallace Stevens No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful." (Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms) Maps and Views
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been
all along.
-- Madeleine L'Engle I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent
ages as much as 20 years.
-- Anonymous "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Maps and Views "See - one side of my face is gentle and kind, incapable of anything but love of my fellow man. The other side, the other profile, is cruel and predatory and evil, incapable of anything but lusts and "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you and education." (Wilson Mizner) Maps and Views
The multitude is always in the wrong.
-- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscommon, 1684 I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the marriage cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it,
Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Nash The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.
-- Author Unknown Maps and Views We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Maps and Views
"I never learned from a man who agreed with me." (Robert A. Heinlein) Marriage isn't a word... it's a sentence.
-- King Vidor, in the 1928 film, The Crawl The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Maps and Views He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
-- Joan Borysenko Maps and Views
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
-- Peter De Vries The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind
woman.
-- S. T. Coleridge Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
-- Karl Wallenda I tried a mail order bride, once, but she was damaged in the mail, and I had to return the unused part for my full refund. The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived
in this century. I didn't live in this century.
-- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic Maps and Views Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian." (Dennis Wholey) Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not
mean his maker, but himself.
-- Dean Inge Maps and Views
Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
-- H. L. Mencken I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton Maps and Views Politics have no relation to morals.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Maps and Views
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh blah "Some of the worlds greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. unattributed" (Anonymous) >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 The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Maps and Views Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose.
-- F. M. Knowles "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Maps and Views
"No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
-- King George V Maps and Views A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take
her off his hands.
-- Sacha Guitry I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Maps and Views
"Those who feel certainty are stupid and those with any imagination or understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "I consider it the highest compliment when my employees go out and start their own companies in competition with me. I always send them a plant to wish them well. Of course, it's a cactus." (Norman B A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
-- St. Augustine Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
-- Mae West 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 Maps and Views The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-- Andre Gide Maps and Views
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