To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
-- Oscar Wilde When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our
pain How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Maps "This is the first age that's paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one." (Arthur C. Clarke) "Be the change that you want to see in the world." (Mohandas Gandhi) They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
-- Antonio Porchi Maps
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already
were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "Every act of violence increases the recruitment of terrorists. Iraq has been turned into a base of terror." (Noam Chomsky, from The Toronto Star, March 23, 2004) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
-- Roger Babson Maps Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be Love is an ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.
-- Lord Dewar Maps
Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
-- Josh Billings A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your
temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost Maps The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent
crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry
inspe I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any Maps
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
-- G. K. Chesterton If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Maps In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
-- Robert Frost Maps
"No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, g It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
-- Vince Lombardi "Courage is found in unlikely places." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Maps "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener.
-- Pauline Thomason Maps
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz "People demand freedom only when they have no power." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. Maps Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house.
-- Jean Ke I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better.
- A. J. Liebling To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
-- Anatole France Maps
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
-- Edgar Allan Poe "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless.
-- R. Scott Richards In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is
simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
-- Edward P. Tryon Maps I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises,
promotions, and other signs of appreciation.
-- Anonymous What's new? Most of my wife. Maps
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of
bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one
more letter she'd have to remember.
-- Shecky Greene Maps I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way
around Chinatown.
-- Woody Allen All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost;
-- J.R.R. Tolkein All over Washington today, the politicians and the power brokers are happy. In fact, if you listen
closely, you can hear the sound of champagne corks popping.
-- Paul Jacob, Term Limits Executive Di Maps
"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would
be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) D If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte Maps 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 "Whether it is a black cat or a white cat, as long as it can catch the rat, it is a good cat." (Deng Xiao Ping) 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 Maps
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD) "If I were still a critic, I would loathe knowing the person I was writing about. There's enough of an incestuous relationship between subject and writer." (Manny Farber, American film theorist) This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous "Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one." (Theodore Roosevelt) Maps "Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational." (Charles Schultz) Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O "Brevity is the soul of wit." (William Shakespeare) Maps
Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
were, and ask why not?
-- Robert Francis Kennedy "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching." (Satchel Paige) Maps The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernard Shaw Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
-- Chekhov Maps
