In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves
beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
-- Al Rogers, Global SchoolHouse Netw I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
-- Walt Disney I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
-- Francois-Auguste Rodin, when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "One of the great dangers in having a career is getting bored." (Itzhak Perlman) Maps and Views It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call the time Eternity." (Jerzy Kosinski, Polish novelist, from his suicide note) Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
- Gail Godwin Maps and Views
Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Maps and Views You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share and share the life we choose. Someone to
help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to
comfort us along Maps and Views
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain I couldn't remember when I had been so disappointed. Except perhaps the time I found out that
M&Ms really do melt in your hand...
-- Peter Oakley There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you
yourself have altered.
-- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
-- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.
-- M. Hirschfield Maps and Views Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
- Saint Augustine Maps and Views
We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
-- Agnes Repplier "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.
-- Virginia Woolf Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken Maps and Views I hate work. That's why I got married.
-- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford 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 Maps and Views
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
-- Proverbs 23:7 "Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something." (Plato, 427 BC-348) "Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them." (Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) "The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing." (John Powell) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford Maps and Views
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
-- H. L. Mencken blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Maps and Views Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Maps and Views
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
-- Dr. Karl Menninger "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) "Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking." (H. Jackson Brown (Jr.) Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
them.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views "What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee "In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die." (John Chancellor, The News Business) Maps and Views
"Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf Maps and Views No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
-- G. K. Chesterton Maps and Views
"That's the true sign. If the lover has not yet achieved his prize, his eyes will follow the woman, while she appears indifferent. But once he's gained his goal, it's the woman's eyes that follow him, You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
-- Stanislaw J. Lec The only thing you will ever be able to say in the so-called 'social' sciences is: "some do, some
don't."
-- Ernest Rutherford 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 Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes.
-- Elbert Hubbard Maps and Views Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
- Richard Bach We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H.L. Mencken The only reward of virtue is virtue.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Maps and Views
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
-- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan "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) "Ninety percent of my salary I spent on booze and women ... and the other ten percent I wasted." (Tug McGraw, Major League Baseball pitcher) "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Maps and Views 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 Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill Maps and Views
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
-- Fred Allen the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
-- Woody Allen It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G. B. Burgin Maps and Views Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
-- Eugene McCarthy "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) Maps and Views
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