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Never judge a book by its movie.
-- J. W. Eagan Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does
come, we no longer exist.
-- Epicurus Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
- Niels Bohr "The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) Maps and Views "Today was good. / Today was fun. / Tomorrow is another one." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous Maps and Views
If all these sweet young things were laid end to end, I wouldn't be the slightest bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.
- Irvin S. Cobb Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.
-- Baskins When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it's not so hot.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein 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 Maps and Views
"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) "Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea.
-- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
-- Mark Twain Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it. Maps and Views I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House -- as
Brutus loved Caesar.
-- Bill Moyers I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei Maps and Views
When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) My wife says if I go fishing one more time she's going to leave me. Gosh, I'm going to miss her. There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and
discipline.
-- Michel de Montaigne Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than
the wisest man can answer.
-- Charles Caleb Colton Maps and Views Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three
children and no theories.
-- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Maps and Views
I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
-- J. Curtis McKay, Wisconsin State Elections Board The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
-- Ray Bandy "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Maps and Views Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
-- Jackie Mason "Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know." (Gilbert Keith Chesterton) By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you
will become a philosopher.
-- Socrates Maps and Views
Man and wife make one fool. "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking.
-- Martin H. Fischer Maps and Views Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference.
-- Libbie Fudim Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every
beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory!
-- General Douglas MacArthur Maps and Views
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without
the sympathy of the community.
-- William James "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig
deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live.
-- H "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell Maps and Views We have art to save ourselves from the truth.
- Friedrich Nietzsche It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they
are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- J. Bronowski, The Ascent of Man Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his Bachelor's Degree and the woman gets her Masters. Maps and Views
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Never marry for money. Ye'll borrow it cheaper.
-- Scottish Proverb "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) The most savage controversies are about those matters as to which there is no good evidence
either way.
-- Bertrand Russell Computers will not be perfected until they can compute how much more than the estimate the job
will cost.
-- Anon Maps and Views "Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend." (Albert Camus) Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop
questioning.
-- Albert Einstein "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Maps and Views
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are
difficult.
-- Seneca "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen Maps and Views "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.
-- Thomas Jefferson It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
-- Mae West Maps and Views
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.
-- Sophocles Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
-- Ralph Marston In a novel, the hero can lay ten girls and marry a virgin for the finish. In a movie, that is not
allowed. The villain can lay anybody he wants, have as much fun and as he wants cheating,
stealing, "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) Maps and Views blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Practice random acts of kindness and sensless acts of beauty.
-- Adair Lara Maps and Views
Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about
his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.
-- George Santayana The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Count your age with friends but not with years.
-- Anonymous "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Maps and Views Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate,
the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
-- Rainer Maria Ril Maps and Views
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