I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
-- Bill Hoest The west wasn't won on salad.
-- ND Beef Council, billboard advertisement, 1990 blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Love: An obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage. Maps and Views "Not only is there no guarantee of the temporal immortality of the human soul, that is to say of its eternal survival after death; but, in any case, this assumption completely fails to accomplish the Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) Maps and Views
"Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) Ah Mozart! He was happily married - but his wife wasn't. -- Borge Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing.
-- Bernard Baruch You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was
60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.
-- Ellen DeGeneres Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than
you is a maniac.
-- George Carlin Maps and Views "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.
-- Anonymous Chinese Student, during protests in Tianamen Square, Beijing, 1989 "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Maps and Views
"I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) Marriage is the process of finding out what kind of man your wife would have preferred. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein 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 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 Maps and Views Marriage is the sole cause of divorce. The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) Maps and Views
One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton "The perception of beauty is a moral test." (Henry David Thoreau) Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
-- G. K. Chesterton "When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost." (Billy Graham) Maps and Views Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
-- Stephen Leacock A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
-Robert Frost (1874-1963) A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
-- John Ciardi Maps and Views
"All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
-- Virginia Woolf "Death solves all problems--no man, no problem." (Josef Stalin) Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead.
-- Euripides Maps and Views Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of
sin.
-- John Von Neuman My wife ran off with my best friend last week. I miss him! "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist." (Marshall McLuhan) Maps and Views
"It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people
themselves.
-- August Strindberg One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
-- Virginia Woolf "I offer images; I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached ... But, we can only open the doors. We can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free--more than any I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller Maps and Views "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) Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery Maps and Views
There are many things worth living for, there are a few things worth dying for, but there is nothing
worth killing for.
-- Tom Robbins There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as
though everything is a miracle.
-- Albert Einstein Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.
-- Ayn Rand Victory belongs to the most persevering.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Maps and Views And now, in keeping with Channel 40's policy of always bringing you the latest in blood and guts,
in living color, you're about to see another first -- an attempted suicide.
-- Chris Hubbock, who sh Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of the dream." (Eleanor Roosevelt) Maps and Views
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
-- Anonymous It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by
the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
-- Douglas Jerold, 1858 The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard "I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand." (Confucius, 551 BC-479) One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good
reputation.
-- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous "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) Maps and Views
The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
-- Latin Proverb Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
-- Abraham Lincoln "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) Maps and Views Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and
cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
-- Tom Robbins There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
-- George Armstrong Custer Maps and Views
We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as
possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worry about the blind alleys or describe how you had "Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
-- H. L. Mencken Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.
-- Richard Strauss, on conducting "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Maps and Views "I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear ... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived." (Rabbi H I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
-- Zsa Zsa Gabor Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. It is
thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and with a manly heart.
-- Henry Wadsworth Lo Maps and Views
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn "To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to learn." (Isaac Asimov) "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) Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
-- Edward H. Land Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
-- G. K. Chesterton Children are a poor man's riches.
-- English proverb Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Maps and Views
