Macedonia Maps - Macedonian maps from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection.
"Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions." (Octave Mirbeau, The Torture Garden) "Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley 2,400,000 Americans play the accordian - hopefully not at the same time.
-- inside of a Pepsi cap If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
-- Aristotle Onassis Maps and Views I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) Maps and Views
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now.... This is an ex-parrot.
-- John Cleese, Monty Python, British comedy television show The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and
members of the Senate.
-- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Maps and Views And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.
-- Grandma Moses Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy The gods too are fond of a joke.
- Aristotle Maps and Views
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
-- Colin Greene "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house
as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.
-- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century "Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." (Napoleon Bonaparte) May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm
upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in
the palm Maps and Views "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) The days just before marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book. "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Maps and Views
Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favourite things.
-- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on.
-- Carl Sandburg "The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston Maps and Views "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Maps and Views
Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.
-- Herbert Westren Turnbull Maps and Views The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." (George Bernard Shaw) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...
-- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show Maps and Views
I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-- Gilda Radner Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
-- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
-- Indira Gandhi Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker 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 Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
-- Erica Jong Maps and Views
"Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mai "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts." (Henry B. Adams) "The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn." (Agatha Christie) The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Maps and Views The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows "I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'" (William Butler Yeats) "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Maps and Views
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
-- E. B. White Republican boys date Democratic girls. They plan to marry Republican girls, but feel they're entitled to a little fun first. Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Maps and Views It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from
history.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Maps and Views
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley 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 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 He who laughs, lasts.
-- Mary Pettibone Poole Maps and Views "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "Plato was a bore." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Maps and Views
Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft...and the only one that can be mass
produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun I don't feel good.
-- Luther Burbank, dying words blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-- Soren Kierkegaard Maps and Views The society of women is the element of good manners.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln "You exist only in what you do." (Federico Fellini) Maps and Views
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) "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) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Maps and Views Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is
not a conservative, has no brains.
-- Winston Churchill How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it
a leg.
-- Abraham Lincoln The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson Maps and Views
