"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) You can't say civilization isn't advancing: in every war they kill you in a new way.
-- Will Rogers "What is the difference between exploring and being lost?" (Dan Eldon, photojournalist) Maps and Views "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) I'd marry again if I found a man who had 15 million and would sign over half of it to me before the
marriage and guarantee he'd be dead within a year.
-- Bette Davis Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Maps and Views
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
-- Benjamin Disraeli The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne.
-- Robertson Davies The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the
chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown "If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." (Mark Twain) blah "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think." (Milton Berle) Maps and Views Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting someone else to do the work.
-- John G. Pollard Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
-- Judith Viorst It was very good of God to let Carlyle and Mrs Carlyle marry one another and so make only two people miserable instead of four, besides being very amusing. Maps and Views
There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
-- Neils Bohr Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
-- Gail Godwin 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 Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur Maps and Views Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love.
-- French saying "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.
-- Honore de Balzac Maps and Views
I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the
advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
-- Benjamin Franklin If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.
-- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz I date this girl for two years--and then the nagging starts: "I wanna know your name."
-- Mike Binder Success is just a matter of attitude.
-- Darcy E. Gibbons Maps and Views If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.
- Andrew Marvell Maps and Views
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach What's another word for "Thesaurus?"
-- Steven Wright "Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do." (Dale Carnegie) Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Anon. He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
-- Aesop Maps and Views Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.
-- Saint John Chrysostom In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing
popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
-- Dave Barry Maps and Views
"The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability.
-- Oscar Wilde "Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared." (Eddie Rickenbacker) "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
-- French Proverb Maps and Views It was a day like this Marco Polo left for China. What are your plans for today?
--Loesje "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves
great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates
the Maps and Views
"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I
didn' Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H. G. Wells "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) I'll sleep when I'm dead.
- Warren Zevon Maps and Views Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-- Abraham Lincoln I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard Maps and Views Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops
were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop
hung She felt in italics and thought in capitals.
-- Henry James Maps and Views
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true.
-- Richard Bach Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast the disc
jockey is not allowed to talk.
-- Fran Lebowitz If you never want to see a man again, say, "I love you, I want to marry you, I want to have children..." - they leave skid marks. -- Rita Rudner He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley Maps and Views Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. Goodbye, Everybody!
-- Hart Crane, poet, who committed suicide by jumping overboard during a steamship voyage. Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married Maps and Views
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.
-- Billy Sunday "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies has forgotten where he put it." (Claude Rains, as Mr. Dryden, Lawrence of Arabia, 1962) Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and
illiterate sport fishermen.
-- P. J. O'Rourke Maps and Views Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
- Isaac Asimov The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
-- Richard Braunstein Friends applaud, the Comedy is over.
-- Ludwig von Beethoven, dying words Maps and Views
An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for
love is measured by fullness, not by reception.
-- Harold Loukes "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health,
knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
-- Roger Babson We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Vince Lombardi Maps and Views Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
-- B.F. Skinner "Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck." (George Sanders, suicide note) I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Maps and Views
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