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To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) "Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence Maps and Views Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and
believing you've witnessed the second coming.
-- Guy Kawasaki Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire Maps and Views
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan, Saturday Evening Post, 1965 Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind
and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the
coachin Maps and Views "For others do I wait ... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age.
-- Jeanne Moreau Maps and Views
"How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister? When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you
don't know. He knows now that he doesn't know. Last year, he didn't know that.
-- Bill Parcels, New Engla Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) Maps and Views "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely
to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to There's no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse!
-- Calvin Maps and Views
I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
- Lewis Perelman Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson "Death where is thy sting? Love, where is thy glory?" (William Shakespeare) You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Maps and Views "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Maps and Views
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at the
moment.
-- Robert Benchley Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep
up with software demands We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-- Aristotle Maps and Views Insurance is like marriage. You pay, pay, pay, and you never get anything back.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor Maps and Views
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov 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 I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson 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 Maps and Views Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Maps and Views
"I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic." (Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up) Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.
-- Anon. Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain Maps and Views "Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself--and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine wit Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
-- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper Marriage is like a box of chocolates. You have to squeeze a few bottoms to make sure you like
what you are getting.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality.
-- Theodor Reik NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows
how to make us disobedient.
-- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi "One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views He who laughs last is generally the last to get the joke.
-- Terry Cohen My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.
-- Buddy Hackett If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a
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"It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas
doctors rob you and kill you too.
-- Anton Chekhov "These are days you'll remember." If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony,
remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.
-- Christine Todd, NJ Governor, Whea There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Maps and Views Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
-- Wernher Von Braun Black holes are where God divided by zero.
- Steven Wright Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the
truth.
- Sherlock Holmes Maps and Views
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
-- Roger Simon I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
-- Nancy Mitford If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it,
Almighty God! I know not what course others may take but as for me; give me liberty or give me
de Maps and Views Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
- J. Paul Getty Maps and Views
Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
-- George Orwell We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein Maps and Views If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
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We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
-- Seneca The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Maps and Views
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