Kosovo Maps - From the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas at Austin.
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
-- Milwuakee mayor, on why he became a politician 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 Maps and Views "Genius without education is like silver in the mine." (Benjamin Franklin) Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
-- Samuel Johnson One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do
what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-- Henry Ford Maps and Views
"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." (Groucho Marx) A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman
is one who can find such a man.
-- Lana Turner Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if
I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now
comple The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do
its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.
-- Maps and Views 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 The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Maps and Views
There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a
dozen.
-- John Steinbeck How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-- Alexandre Dumas fils blah blah blah blah blah "This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot) _end]
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"Hello Kitty is an icon that doesn't stand for a Maps and Views If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "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) 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 Maps and Views
We have been friends together in sunshine and in shade.
-- Caroline Norton We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind
her stands his wife.
-- Groucho Marx If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.
-- Bob Edwards Love is friendship set on fire.
- Jeremy Taylor "Well begun is half done." (Aristotle) Maps and Views Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.
-- General Douglas MacArthur My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X We do not have censorship. What we have is a limitation on what newspapers can report.
-- Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, South Africa Maps and Views
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-- Robert M. Pirsig "I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhe No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
- William Jennings Bryan No wonder nobody comes here--it's too crowded.
-- Yogi Berra Maps and Views "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the
writing will be just as it should be.
-- Mark Twain blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) Maps and Views
The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." (John Cage) If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
-- Harry Shearer Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only
hope to find in their butlers.
-- W. Somerset Maugham Maps and Views The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.
-- Honore de Balzac One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton Maps and Views
I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
-- Katherine Cebrian Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house. Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work.
- Robert Orben Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unhewn marble of a great sculpture.
-- Aldous Huxley Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous Maps and Views In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
-- Christopher Morley People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only
make $500,000.
-- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
-- Tom Robbins, Still Life With Woodpecker Maps and Views
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.
-- Robert L. Stevenson A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
-- Anonymous It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Marriage is like a cage--one sees the birds outside desperate to get in and those inside equally
desparate to get out.
-- Di Peatlins When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Maps and Views Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do.
--Don Galer Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn
themselves to a life of vinegar.
-- Countess of Blessington Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
-- Simeon Strunsky Maps and Views
"There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it,
there will be a fish.
-- Ovid "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) 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 Drink to me.
-- Pablo Picasso, dying words Maps and Views The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.
-- Mark Twain Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick Maps and Views
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
-- Thomas Jefferson A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules, including:
* Both of your socks should always be the same color
* Or they should at least both be fairly dark
-- Dave Barry "Every Man and every Woman is a Star." (Aleister Crowley) Statistics have shown that mortality increases perceptibly in the military during wartime.
-- Alphonse Allais Maps and Views Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at
heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels,
upon the lev Maps and Views
In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person
must be fired.
-- Conway's Law Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each
other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's
nerves "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) 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 Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Maps and Views "Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop." (Usman Asif) I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting.
-- John Brown - last words Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside
desperate to get out.
-- Michel de Montaigne Maps and Views
