If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
-- Albert Einstein Everything is drive-through. In California, they even have a burial service called Jump-In-The-
Box.
-- Wil Shriner The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "... What good are dreams if they come true?" (Frederick Exley, A Fan's Notes) Maps and Views Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
- Jean-Paul Sartre A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
-- Anonymous Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
-- Buddha Maps and Views
Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory.
-- Albert Schweitzer There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one
of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
-- George Bernard Shaw "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
-- Winston Churchill The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind.
-- William James Maps and Views Women are like tea bags; put them in hot water and they get stronger.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Marriage is very much like a violin; after the sweet music is over, the strings are attached. "Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it." (George Bernard Shaw) Maps and Views
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing -- and then marry him.
-- Cher "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
-- Henry Kissinger 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 Maps and Views "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) Sir, I would rather be right than be President.
-- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would
be able to endure it.
-- Schopenhauer Maps and Views
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Thomas Jefferson--still surv...
-- John Adams, dying words blah "Ability wins us the esteem of the true men; luck that of the people." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this
is not difficult.
-- Charlotte Whitton Maps and Views Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars
-- Les Brown America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual intervention of civilization.
-- George Clemenceau A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
-- Robert Frost Maps and Views
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first
comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Maps and Views Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it
doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever
sea Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Maps and Views
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
-- Heywood Brown Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Good friends are good for your health.
-- Irwin Sarason Whatever you are, be a good one.
-- Abraham Lincoln Maps and Views I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. I worship the quicksand he walks in.
- Art Buchwald They have come up with a perfect understanding. He won't try to run her life, and he won't try to
run his, either.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views
Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
-- Abraham Lincoln Before marraige a man will like awake all night thinking about something you said. After marriage
he will fall asleep before you have finished saying it.
-- Anon. "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the
lessons that history has to teach.
-- Aldous Huxley Maps and Views I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for
half the money.
-- Arthur Godfrey Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Maps and Views
In a cat's eyes, all things belong to cats.
-- English Proverb Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Anything too stupid to be said, is sung.
-- Voltaire Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more
experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat
soiled or torn? Maps and Views There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's
being off the network.
-- Guy Almes To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Maps and Views
.. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over
myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long
per If Satan ever loses his hair, there'll be hell toupee.
-- Anonymous Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
-- John Galsworthy Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
- Karl Wallenda In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Maps and Views Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.
-- Hoshang N. Akhtar Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Maps and Views
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something
different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine Change before you have to.
-- Jack Welch This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes
time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
-- Fred Astaire Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-- Mark Twain Maps and Views 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 In matrimony, to hesitate is sometimes to be saved.
-- Samuel Butler There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld Maps and Views
Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or
failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
-- George R. Kirkpatrick Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the
problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-- Buckminster A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.
-- Adlai Stevenson Tear open packet, unfold and use.
-- Directions on moist towelette package Maps and Views "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their
graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort.
-- Sydney Smith Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Maps and Views
