A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow.
-- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
-- Elting E. Morison "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Maps and Views We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person
perfectly.
-- Anonymous It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear.
-- Henry David Thoreau "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Maps and Views
"I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where are souls belong....The only solution is to confront them--co "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) "If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (Japanese Proverb) Maps and Views Marriage is an institution--but who wants to live in an institution? Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
-- George Bernard Shaw "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) Maps and Views
I didn't accept it. I received it.
-- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and
two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." (Thomas Jefferson) Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?
-- Rita Rudner I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
-- Thomas Edison One survey found that ten percent of Americans thought Joan of Arc was Noah's wife....
-- Robert Boynton Maps and Views "Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is cutting down its trees to build highways, losing its eart Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau Maps and Views
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive." (Samuel Goldwyn) Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley
Temple could do it at the age of four.
-- Katharine Hepburn An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie Maps and Views Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) "Anyone who thinks they're important is usually just a pompous moron who can't deal with his or her own pathetic insignificance and the fact that what they do is meaningless and inconsequential..." ( Maps and Views
Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
-- Hermann Weyl You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or
play.
-- WARREN BEATTY It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
-- Oscar Wilde Maps and Views Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead 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 Maps and Views
"We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police." (Jeff Marder) "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land." (Jack Keroac) "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
-- Ed Howe Maps and Views "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Maps and Views
"People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say." (Kurt Vonnegut) Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn; my God, do you learn!" (Clive Staples Lewis) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one
thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln Maps and Views God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes.
-- Brendan Hills "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) Maps and Views
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-- James Baldwin "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh." (George Bernard Shaw) Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.
-- Roger Babson Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg "What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul." (Joseph Addison) Maps and Views I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me
is another matter.
- Sir Winston Churchill No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
love with him first.
-- Cesare Pavese Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
-- Samuel Butler Maps and Views
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-- William Blake Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." (Paul Boese) A straight line is the shortest in morals as in mathematics.
-- Maria Edgeworth Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Maps and Views "I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." (Joan Rivers) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
-- Grace Hansen I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children they just about throw up.
-- Barbara Bush, first lady, 1989 Maps and Views
"College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
-- Mary Alice Messenger If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.
-- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not
impress the neighbors as being very much.
-- Zora Neale Hurston We can say 'Peace on Earth,' we can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it, but if we have
not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.
-- Betty Shabazz Maps and Views "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice
that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken Maps and Views
To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
-- Ghandi The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon.
-- Jerry Olson I don't know as much as God, but I know more than He did at my age.
-- Henry Kissinger No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
-- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he
LDS Church, April, 1964 Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Maps and Views "In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.'" (Daniel Clowes) I require three things in a man: He must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.
-- Dorothy Parker "I have an unfortunate personality." (George Orson Welles) Maps and Views
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