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 Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
--Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't.
-- Jules Renard Maps and Views You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
-- Albert Camus When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
-- Sacha Guitry your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Maps and Views
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only
way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste
time "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy, character on "The Muppet Show," U.S. television show The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-- Joseph Heller, God Knows If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
- George Bernard Shaw Maps and Views What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
-- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
-- Woody Allen Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of
them become real as you can.
-- Frank W. Woolworth Maps and Views
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
-- Frank L. Visco, How to Write Good Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an
automobile.
-- Billy Sunday Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac 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 Maps and Views Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone Maps and Views
Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain
as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't
remember what "Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin) "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." (Bill Mahe The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Maps and Views The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons.
-- Emerson, Ralph Waldo 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 They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist---
-- John B. Sedgwick, general, dying words, 1864 Maps and Views
"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your
thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.
-- Richard Mitchell, from I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but
all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.
- Bill Hirst Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
-- Oscar Wilde Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Maps and Views Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than
yourself.
-- William Faulkner Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes
some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.
-- George Maps and Views
Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.
-- Richard Rosen The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos "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) Maps and Views 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 "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Mistress: Something between a mister and a mattress.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views
She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous This delivery driver carries no money. His wife has it all. Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Maps and Views Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls.
-- Lenny Bruce Maps and Views
"People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.
-- Cecilia Egan Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana History is more or less bunk.
-- Henry Ford May your wife be a witch who takes after her mother, and may you all live together in a one-room house. Maps and Views I have read your book and much like it.
-- Moses Hadas, book reviewer Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
-- Marx Groucho, the film "Animal Crackers" The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
-- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Maps and Views
A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
-- George H. Mead Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
-- Jim Backus My wife submits and I obey; she always lets me have her way. I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all
over it and put your name at the top.
-- English Professor, Ohio University You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maps and Views He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley Maps and Views
Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.
- Ambrose Bierce Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
character.
-- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of fig Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
Rabbi Julius Gordon Maps and Views Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
Advertising wondrous things!
-- Tom Lehrer Maps and Views
I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am.
-- Samuel Johnson Work expands to fill the time available.
-- PARKINSON'S LAW Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow,
that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
-- Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare. Act II, Scene II, lines 220-221 "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions." (John A. Simone Jr.) Maps and Views The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers Maps and Views
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