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The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l Hell is paved with good samaritans.
-- William M. Holden Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Maps and Views The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
-- Mother Teresa Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-- George Bernard Shaw Maps and Views
Parents often talk about the younger generations as if they didn't have anything to do with it. "I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress." (André Gide) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
-- Thomas Jefferson It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe And I shall love thee still my dear, Until my wife is wise. Maps and Views "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) When women go wrong, men go right after them.
-- Mae West If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
-- Wilfred Sheed Maps and Views
Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) "In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) Men are strong only so long as they represent a strong idea. They become powerless when they
oppose it.
-- Sigmund Freud "To live in the hearts we leave behind is not to die." (Thomas Campbell) Maps and Views Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
-- Michael Levine, Lessons at the Halfway Point 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 Maps and Views
Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together.
-- Joan Thompson Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can
never tell.
-- Joan Crawford Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
-- Mark Twain "Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is k Maps and Views This is the fourth?
-- Thomas Jefferson, dying words It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-- Abraham Lincoln "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Maps and Views
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
-- Gandhi "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) "A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your
way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what
may Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Maps and Views Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r If ever I get married again it would have to be under an anaesthetic.
-- Marie Tonkin Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through Maps and Views
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
can't read.
-- Frank Zappa "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy "It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books--what other men do not say in whole books." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols) Maps and Views Vote early and vote often.
- Al Capone Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find
out how to do it.
-- Theodore Roosevelt In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Maps and Views
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Maps and Views then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
-- Vladimir Nabokov Maps and Views
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
- Helen Rowland Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.
-- William Congreve My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me!
-- Henry Ford "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Maps and Views "I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real senten 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.
-- Anonymous "I praise loudly. I blame softly." (Catherine the Great) Maps and Views
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Character is what you are in the dark.
-- Dwight L. Moody The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- George Eliot As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton Maps and Views The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is
the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
-- Crowf My darling wife was always glum. I drowned her in a cask of rum, And so made sure that she would stay, In better spirits night and day. Maps and Views
If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth Golf is a good walk spoiled.
-- Mark Twain 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 Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard Maps and Views Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
-- Oscar Wilde Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George bernard Shaw Maps and Views
"Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard "The reason why kids are crazy is because nobody can face the responsibility of bringing them up." (John Lennon) Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events.
-- Robert A. Heinlein _The Rolling Stones_ Maps and Views blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) "I feel I have to protect myself against things. So I'm pretty careful to lose most of them." (George Orson Welles) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Maps and Views
