"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Silence is argument carried out by other means.
-- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." (Alexander Pope) If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all.
-- Anonymous Maps and Views "One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the
second, "For my best friend."
-- Anonymous An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
-- Alfred A. Knopf Maps and Views
"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to
cough.
-- Pearl Williams "Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) "Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." (Serge Gainsbourg) Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and
hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in
Heaven.
-- P. J Maps and Views Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
-- James Graham If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
-- Lily Tomlin blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) Maps and Views
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is
plurality, death is uniformity.
-- Octavio Paz The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house.
-- Moliere Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
-- Mark B. Cohen "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Maps and Views If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.
-- Lisa Moriyama I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and
read a book.
-- Groucho Marx The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be
feasible.
- A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper prop Maps and Views
"A true friend stabs you in the front." (Oscar Wilde) When you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research.
-- Wilson Mizner In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that
no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
-- Paul Dirac "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson Maps and Views "Humans beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their god-given right to be stupid." (Dean Koontz, Seize the Night) You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) Maps and Views
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-- Oscar Wilde I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane I've been trying desperately to save my marriage for the last 35 years. Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.
-- Ernie Kovacs Maps and Views If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man
will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
-- Henry Ford It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper Maps and Views
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 "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's
age.
-- Modern Maturity We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
-- Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, 1962 Maps and Views "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Maps and Views
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-- Mother Teresa Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by
definition, is unassailable.
-- James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name, 1961 Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) Maps and Views Epperson's law:
When a man says it's a silly, childish game, it's probably something his wife can beat him at. The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little pot belly and a bald
spot.
-- Elayne Boosler Maps and Views
Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl could want in her life, except for good
taste in men!
-- Wedding Toast God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) This compact disc is made from analog masters recorded without noise reduction. Half the tracks,
in fact, were recorded in a dismal, cheap basement eight-track studio with puddles of water on
the fl Maps and Views He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.
-- Publilius Syrus Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
-- Martin Mull To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept
me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't
everythin Maps and Views
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a
thing to be acheived.
-- William Jennings Bryant "To err is human; to forgive, divine." (Alexander Pope) Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
-- Albert Einstein Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. 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' Maps and Views In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I want to die in my sleep like my friend.... Not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his
car.
-- Seen on a bumper sticker Maps and Views
Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley "Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words." (Anonymous) "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) Maps and Views Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good
questions.
-- Woody Allen Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Maps and Views
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.
-- Al Bernstein The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
-- Albert Einstein There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-- John Greenleaf Whittier Maps and Views The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
-- Virginia Woolf Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off
his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
-- Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley O Maps and Views
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